I will try to forget it, sir." "That is as much as I can expect," said Bartley, humbly.

"But if you only knew the art, the cunning, the apparent evidence, with which that villain Monckton deluded me--" "That I can believe." "And permit me one observation before we drop this unhappy subject forever.

If you had done me the honor to come to me as Walter Clifford, why, then, strong and misleading as the evidence was, I should have said, 'Appearances are deceitful, but no Clifford was ever disloyal.'" This artful speech conquered Walter Clifford.

He blushed, and bowed a little haughtily at the compliment to the Cliffords.

But his sense of justice was aroused.
"You are right," said he.