"'The more haste the less speed,' as the old proverb has it.

I fear I frightened the dear girl by too sudden and vehement an avowal of my passion.

Yet I trust it may not be too late to retrieve my error." "She rejected your suit ?" Mr.Dinsmore said interrogatively.
"Yes, she seemed to do so!" sighed the lover, "yet the objections she urged are not insurmountable.

She calls herself too young and foolish, but I hope to convince her that that is a mistake.

Young she is indeed, but very far from foolish.