It is horrid of you to want to go and leave me when I'm so lonely and haven't got anybody in the world but you!" "I don't want to go, Betty; I hate the mere idea of going.

I'd give a thousand pounds, if I could, to stop away.

But I can't see that I have any alternative.

Miss Farringdon left it to me, as her trustee, to find her heir and give up the property to him; and, as a man of honour, I don't see how I can leave any stone unturned until I have fulfilled the charge which she laid upon me." "Oh! Chris, don't go.

I can't spare you." And Elisabeth stretched out two pleading hands toward him.
Christopher turned away from her.