"One must have means to live at Silverdale!" "Then," said the girl with a soft laugh which cost her a good deal, "it is because you prefer poverty, and you have at least one opportunity at Silverdale.

Courthorne's land was mine to all intents and purposes before it was his, and now it reverts to me.

I owe him nothing, and he did not give it me.

Will you stay and farm it on whatever arrangement Dane and Macdonald may consider equitable?
My uncle's hands are too full for him to attempt it." "No," said Winston, and his voice trembled a little.

"Your friends would resent it." "Then," said the girl, "why have they urged you to stay ?" "A generous impulse.