This marriage is a great trial to me.

I have done all I could to keep Kilian from throwing himself away, but I might as well have argued with the winds." "I don't care how much Kilian throws himself away," I said, impulsively.
"He deserves it for keeping around her all these years.

But I do mind that she is your sister, and that she will be mistress of the house at R----." There was an awful silence then.

Heavens! what had I been thinking about to have said that! I had precipitated the _denouement_, and I had not meant to.

I did not want to hear it that moment, if he were going to marry Charlotte Benson, nor did I want to hear it, if he were saving the old place for me.