Living, as we do, in the same neighbourhood, we may meet occasionally by chance, and always, I hope, with kindly feeling; but, under present circumstances--indeed, under any circumstances--intimacy between your house and ours would be impossible." Lady Caroline shrugged her shoulders with a pretty air of pique.

"As you will! I never trouble myself to court the friendship of any one.
Le jeu ne vaut pas la chandelle." "Do not mistake me," John said, earnestly.

"Do not suppose I am ungrateful for your former kindness to my wife; but the difference between her and you--between your life and hers--is so extreme." "Vraiment!" with another shrug and smile, rather a bitter one.
"Our two paths lie wide apart--wide as the poles; our house and our society would not suit you; and that my wife should ever enter yours"-- glancing from one to the other of those two faces, painted with false roses, lit by false smiles,--"No, Lady Caroline," he added, firmly, "it is impossible." She looked mortified for a moment, and then resumed her gaiety, which nothing could ever banish long.
"Hear him, Emma! So young and so unkindly! Mais nous verrons.

You will change your mind.

Au revoir, mon beau cousin." They drove off quickly, and were gone.
"John, what will Mrs.Halifax say ?" "My innocent girl! thank God she is safe away from them all--safe in a poor man's honest breast." He spoke with much emotion.
"Yet Lady Caroline--" "Did you see who sat beside her ?" "That beautiful woman ?" "Poor soul! alas for her beauty! Phineas, that was Lady Hamilton." He said no more, nor I.