I didn't want he should till it's all over.

It's best, you know." "He is such a good fellow, and so devoted,--it does seem a pity." "Devoted! well, I should rather think he was," said Lillie.

"I believe he would cut off his right hand for me, any day.

But I never gave him any encouragement.

I've always told him I could be to him only as a sister, you know." "You ought not to write to him," said Belle.
"What can I do?
He is perfectly desperate if I don't, and still persists that he means to marry me some day, spite of my screams." "Well, he'll have to stop making love to you after you're married." "Oh, pshaw! I don't believe that old-fashioned talk.