"But I daresay you are right, and that it would have been better for me to have waited." "You may hope everything, if you can-only be patient," said the Captain.
"I tell you frankly, that nothing would make me happier than to see my dear child married to a good man.

I have had many dreary thoughts about her future of late.

I think you know that I have nothing to leave her." "I have never thought of that.

If she were destined to inherit all the wealth of the Rothschilds, she could be no dearer to me than she is." "Ah, what a noble thing true love is! And do you know that she is not really my niece--only a poor waif that I adopted fourteen years ago ?" "I have heard as much from her own lips.

There is nothing, except some unworthiness in herself, that could make any change in my estimation of her." "Unworthiness in herself! You need never fear that.