I am only your friend--and I can't do you that injury.

Curious, isn't it, how such a blackguard as I am can be so fastidious! "But that's the truth.

And that, too, may explain a number of other matters.
"So you see how it is, dear.

The world _is_ full of a number of things.

One of them signs himself your friend, "LOUIS MALCOURT." Virginia's eyes remained on the written page long after she had finished reading.