The meanness of betraying the confidence which Geoffrey had reposed in him would be doubled meanness if he proved false to his trust after Geoffrey had personally insulted him.

The paltry revenge which that false friend had unhesitatingly suspected him of taking was a revenge of which Arnold's nature was simply incapable.

Never had his lips been more effectually sealed than at this moment--when his whole future depended on Sir Patrick's discovering the part that he had played in past events at Craig Fernie.
"Yes! yes!" resumed Sir Patrick, impatiently.

"Blanche's distress is intelligible enough.

But here is my niece apparently answerable for this unhappy woman's disappearance.