Were I to do so, I should cease to be a man." "Where can you find any one who will counsel you so truly ?" "But, nevertheless, I must rule myself.

I do not know whether my suspicions may be perfectly just, but I fancy that she has created this estrangement between you and me.

Has it not been so ?" "Certainly not by speaking to me," said Lucy, blushing ruby-red through every vein of her deep-tinted face.

But though she could not command her blood, her voice was still under her control--her voice and her manner.
"But has she not done so?
You, I know, will tell me nothing but the truth." "I will tell you nothing on this matter, Lord Lufton, whether true or false.

It is a subject on which it does not concern me to speak." "Ah! I understand," he said; and rising from his chair, he stood against the chimney-piece with his back to the fire.