I want to save those ideals, Mr.Touchett, and that's where you come in." "Not surely as an ideal ?" "Well, I hope not," Henrietta replied promptly.

"I've got a fear in my heart that she's going to marry one of these fell Europeans, and I want to prevent it.
"Ah, I see," cried Ralph; "and to prevent it you want me to step in and marry her ?" "Not quite; that remedy would be as bad as the disease, for you're the typical, the fell European from whom I wish to rescue her.

No; I wish you to take an interest in another person--a young man to whom she once gave great encouragement and whom she now doesn't seem to think good enough.

He's a thoroughly grand man and a very dear friend of mine, and I wish very much you would invite him to pay a visit here." Ralph was much puzzled by this appeal, and it is perhaps not to the credit of his purity of mind that he failed to look at it at first in the simplest light.

It wore, to his eyes, a tortuous air, and his fault was that he was not quite sure that anything in the world could really be as candid as this request of Miss Stackpole's appeared.