"Then I will hope." "You will do very wrong." "You cannot say that without loving someone else.

I would not like to hear of your loving such a man as Herbert Courtland." She started at that piece of impertinence, and then, without the slightest further warning, she felt her body blaze from head to foot.
She was speechless with indignation.
"Perhaps I should have said a word of warning to you before." He had now assumed the calm dignity of a clergyman who knows what is due to himself.

"I am not one to place credence in vulgar gossip; I thought that your father, perhaps, might have given you a hint.

Mrs.Linton is undoubtedly a very silly woman.

God forbid that I should ever hear rumor play with your name as I have heard it deal with hers." His assumption of the clergyman's solemn dignity did not make his remark less impertinent, considering that Ella Linton was her dearest friend.
And yet people were in the habit of giving George Holland praise for his tact.