4/6 I think you might have chosen worse." Coldly, very coldly were the words delivered, and there was a strangely keen expression of anguish on Mr.Verner's face; but that was nothing unusual now. Frederick Massingbird was content to accept the words as a sanction of approval. Lionel had not condescended to speak to Frederick Massingbird upon the subject at all; Sibylla had refused him for the other of her own free will; and there he let it rest. But the evening previous to the marriage day, Lionel appeared strangely troubled; indecisive, anxious, as if he were debating some question with himself. |