I will not stay long, nor utter one syllable that is not in harmony with the holy tranquillity of the hour.

I am a stranger in name, but is there not something that tells you I was born to be your friend?
I know there is,--I see it in your ingenuous, confiding eye.

Only answer me one question,--Was it your _own will_, or the will of another that governed your actions to-night ?' "'The will of another,' I answered.

'Let that be a sufficient reason for urging your departure.

If I am forbidden to see you in the parlor, I shall certainly be upbraided for speaking with you here.' "It was very imprudent in me to speak so freely of my step-mother's conduct.