I don't like interfering with your affairs, Roger--with any young man's affairs--but you must know that you have set Washington talking, and it's not fair to a girl--by George it isn't!--when she has given you encouragement and you have made her conspicuous, to begin the same story, in the same place, immediately, with someone else! As you say, I ought to have taken myself off long ago." "I didn't say anything of the kind," said Roger hotly; "you shouldn't put words into my mouth, Uncle Archie.

And I really don't see why you attack me like this.

My tutor particularly asked me, if I came across them, to be civil to Mrs.Maddison and her daughter, and I have done nothing but pay them the most ordinary attentions." "When a man is in love he pays no ordinary attentions.

He has eyes for no one but the lady." The General's umbrella, as it descended from the face of Andrew Jackson and rattled on the flagged path, supplied each word with emphasis.

"However, it is no good talking, and I don't exactly know why I should put my old oar in.