I only wish I had resisted it as I ought." I suppose I must have looked quite miserable, from the efforts he made to restore my self-complacency.

He took the basket from my arm and placed it on the table, moved a chair forward for me, and another for himself, as if preparing for a morning _tete a tete_.
"What would Mrs.Linwood say, if she saw me here at this early hour alone with her son ?" thought I, obeying his motion, and tossing my hat on the light stairs that were winding up behind me.

I did not fell the possibility of declining the interview, for there was a power about him which overmastered without their knowing it the will of others.
"If you knew how much more pleasing is the innocent shame and artless sensibility you manifest, than the ease and assurance of the practised worldling, you would not blush for the impulse which drew you hither.

To the sated taste and weary eye, simplicity and truth are refreshing as the spring-time of nature after its dreary winter.

The cheek that blushes, the eye that moistens, and the heart that palpitates, are sureties of indwelling purity and candor.