I can give your cousin every luxury of which the world has ever dreamed, wrapped and enshrined in beauty.

No person with a soul could be unhappy in the places where she will dwell." "You are at least confident," Nigel remarked.
"It is because I am convinced," was the calm rejoinder.

"I shall take your cousin's happiness into my keeping without one shadow of misgiving.
The last word, however, is with her.

It remains to be seen whether her courage is great enough to induce her to face such a complete change in the manner of her life." "It will not be her lack of courage which will keep her in England," Nigel declared.
Prince Shan bowed, with a graceful little gesture of the hands.

The subject was finished.
"I shall now, Lord Dorminster," he said, "take advantage of your kindly presence here to speak to you on a very personal matter, only this time it is you who are the central figure, and I who am the dummy." "I do not follow you," Nigel confessed, with a slight frown.
"I speak in tones of apology," Prince Shan went on, "but you must remember that I am one of reflective disposition; Nature has endowed me with some of the gifts of my great ancestors, philosophers famed the world over.