Her absolute silence as to her former life, when by speaking out she might benefit us, proves to me that some awful secret, which she dares not reveal, weighs on her mind.

It may also be that she believes it better for us, as well as for herself, that she should remain mute in a way otherwise so unaccountable." In consequence of these opinions, it was agreed by common consent to avoid all allusion to the maiden's former mode of life.

One day, however, Harry was led to make known to Nell what James Starr, his father, mother, and himself believed they owed to her interference.
It was a fete-day.

The miners made holiday on the surface of the county of Stirling as well as in its subterraneous domains.

Parties of holiday-makers were moving about in all directions.