...which she relates how she tried to discourage his advances : " I showed him how he was throwing away into the ashes his best affections — how the common...answer by a single compliment, but simply that he hud not then to choose, and that I might be right or he might be right, he was not there to decide...

...hands " ; how she showed him that he was " throwing into the ashes his best afiections " ; while she " had not strength, even of heart, for the ordinary duties of life "; how his only and sufficient reply was that he loved her and would to his last hour. Few episodes...

...that it could be right for her to accept. Her youth was past, she felt, and her health broken ; she " had not strength, even of heart, for the ordinary duties of life." The subject, consequently, was forbidden ; but the friendship deepened. The visits continued once,...

...apparently hopeless invalid, and asked her to be his wife. Of the debate which ensued she herself writes: "I showed him how he was throwing into the ashes his...— and this,' throwing down all my disadvantages before him. To which he did not answer by a single compliment, but simply that he had not then to choose,...

...him how he was throwing into the ashes his best affections — • how the common gifts of youth 5 and cheerfulness were behind me — how I had not...my disadvantages. To which he did not answer by a 10 single compliment, but simply that he had not then to choose, and that I might be right or he might...