Think not, girl, that I forget you.

Whatever may be my fortune, I shall always have an eye to yours.

I leave you now, but shall see you before long, when I shall settle you permanently and comfortably.

Farewell." He left her in seeming unconsciousness of the words whispered in her ears, yet she heard them all, and duly estimated their value.

To her, to whom he had once pledged himself entirely, the cold boon of his attention and sometime care was painfully mortifying.