No, no, I can never care for him, and it 's no use to try!" The exclamation broke from Polly as if a sudden trouble had seized her, and laying her head down on her knees, she sat motionless for many minutes.
When she looked up, her face wore an expression which no one had ever seen on it before; a look of mingled pain and patience, as if some loss had come to her, and left the bitterness of regret behind.
"I won't think of myself, or try to mend one mistake by making another," she said with a heavy sigh.

"I 'll do what I can for Fan, and not stand between her and a chance of happiness.

Let me see, how can I begin?
I won't walk with him any more; I 'll dodge and go roundabout ways, so that we can't meet.

I never had much faith in the remarkable coincidence of his always happening home to dinner just as I go to give the Roths their lesson.

The fact is, I like to meet him, I am glad to be seen with him, and put on airs, I dare say, like a vain goose as I am.