It is you who have made the little country village my paradise.

O Marian, tell me that it has not been a fool's paradise! My darling, I love you with all my heart and soul, with an honest man's first and only love.

Promise that you will be my wife." He took the hand that lay loosely on her lap, and pressed it in both his own.

She withdrew it gently, and sat looking at him with a face that had grown suddenly pale.
"You do not know what you are asking," she said; "you cannot know.
Captain Sedgewick is not my uncle.

He does not even know who my parents were.