Still, I should not wish you to make her and yourself unhappy.

And I know both of you would be unhappy if, by marrying, you were to spoil each other's careers.

And your father would not be able to allow or to leave you enough to maintain an establishment such as I've set my heart on seeing you have.

Mr.Ranger has been acting very strange of late--almost insane, I'd say." Her tone became constrained as if she were trying to convey more than she dared put into words.

"I feel even surer than when I wrote you, that he's leaving a large part of his fortune to Tecumseh College." And she related--with judicious omissions and embroideries--her last talk with Hiram, and the events that centered about it.
Ross retained the impassive expression he had been cultivating ever since he read in English "high life" novels descriptions of the bearing of men of the "_haut monde_." "That's of no consequence," was his comment, in a tone of indifference.