I shall make a fashionable pair, but not a love match, Malison, believe me." "That Mrs.Hamilton may have the exquisite pleasure of seeing her daughter like other people, however different she may choose to be herself; you will rather do her a kindness than an injury, my dear Miss Grahame." "Fortunately for my purpose, she will not think so.

I shall, through Caroline, inflict a deeper wound than I ever thought to have done.

No other injury would have touched her; she prides herself on Christian forbearance and patience, and such like, which, simply translated, would be found to be nothing but haughtiness and pride, and utter insensibility to human feelings; but if Caroline goes wrong, elopes, perhaps, as her aunt did, disregards parental commands, and acts in the weighty affair of matrimony for herself, why that will be something like a triumph for my diplomatic schemes." "You must work well on Caroline's mind to produce such a consummation," observed Miss Malison.

"I doubt much whether she would ever act in a manner that she would believe so contrary to her duty.

I would advise you never to give her time to reflect." "I never mean to do so.