'Ladies and gentlemen,' said he, 'permit me to introduce Mr.Herbert Philipson, who has just arrived from Sumatra.' You may readily conceive the dismay this unexpected announcement called up into the countenances of the guests.

There was only one person in the room who was calm, tranquil, and unmoved--that person was Cecilia herself.

She rose courteously, bade him welcome, hoped he was well, coolly asked him why he had not written to his friends, and politely asked him to take a seat beside herself and husband, just, for all the world, as if he had been some country cousin or poor relation to whom she wished to show a little attention." "I would rather have been at the bottom of the sea than in her place, for all that," said Mary.
"Why?
She had nothing to reproach herself with.

Had she not waited long enough for him ?" "Young heads," remarked Becker, "are not always stored with sense.

A foolish pledge, given in a moment of thoughtlessness is often obstinately adhered to in spite of reason and argument.