He is twenty years older than Mrs.Cust; but he is so good!" "How is it," almost vehemently broke forth Lionel, "that you are so different from others ?" "I don't know.

Am I different ?" "So different--so different--that--that--" "What is the matter with me ?" she asked timidly, almost humbly, the delicate colour in her cheeks deepening to crimson.
"There is nothing the matter with you," he answered, smiling; "a good thing if there were as little the matter with everybody else.

Do you know that I never saw any one whom I liked so much at first sight as I like you, although you appear to me only as a child?
If I call here often I shall grow to love you almost as much as I love my sister Decima." "Is not this your home ?" "No.

My home is at Verner's Pride.".