If I alluded to you as a brother, it was because I wished to speak to you with the frankness of a sister.

It is better that you should not walk with me from school,--it is not proper,--people will make remarks." "Well, let them make them,--who cares ?" "I care, a great deal.

I will not be the subject of village gossip." "Who put this idea in your head, Gabriella?
I know it did not originate there.

You are too artless, too unsuspicious.

Oh! I know," he added, with a heightened color and a raised tone, "you have been kept after school; you have had a lecture on propriety; you cannot deny it." "I neither deny nor affirm any thing.