Said she, "You mustn't judge him like other people: he was always so very eccentric.

Turn my picture to the wall! My poor picture! Oh, Guy, Guy, could one mother have borne you and me ?" Amboyne had not a word more to say; he was indignant himself.
Now that very afternoon, as if by the influence of what they call a brain-wave, Grace Carden, who felt herself much stronger with Mr.Raby than when she first came, was moved to ask him, with many apologies, and no little inward tremor, whether she might see the other side of that very picture before she went.
"What for ?" "Don't be angry, uncle dear.

Curiosity." "I do not like to refuse you anything, Grace.

But--Well, if I lend you the key, will you satisfy your curiosity, and then replace the picture as it is ?" "Yes, I will." "And you shall do it when I am not in the room.

It would only open wounds that time has skinned.