There perhaps was such a thing once; but now-a-days the more you do for a person, the surer they are to turn against you, and cheat you.

Now, don't go white and pale.

I know you're a good girl in the main; and I've been lying awake all night, and I've a deal to say to you.

That scoundrel of a brother of yours!" Maggie could not ask (as would have been natural, if she had been ignorant) what Edward had done.

She knew too well.