"I should be no nearer her with three thousand pounds for my fortune than I am without a sixpence.

The best thing I can do for her happiness and my own is to turn my back upon her, and devote myself to hunting the Haygarths.

It's rather hard too, just as I have begun to fancy that she likes me a little." In the course of those interviews in Gray's Inn which occurred before Valentine took any active steps in his new pursuit, certain conditions were agreed upon between him and Mr.Sheldon.The first and most serious of these conditions was, that Captain Paget should be in nowise enlightened as to his _protege's_ plans.

This was a strong point with George Sheldon.

"I have no doubt Paget's a very good fellow," he said.
(It was his habit to call everybody a good fellow.