The things we do!

" Here the young gentleman was so overcome that he paused in his
speech, and gave way to an emotion, for which, surely no man who has been
in the same condition with Lord Farintosh will blame him.
Miss Newcome was also much touched by this exhibition of natural feeling;
and, I dare say, it was at this time that her eyes showed the first
symptoms of that malady of which the traces were visible an hour after.
"You are very generous and kind to me, Lord Farintosh," she said. "Your
constancy honours me very much, and proves how good and loyal you are;
but--but do not think hardly of me for saying that the more I have
thought of what has happened here,--of the wretched consequences of
interested marriages; the long union growing each day so miserable, that
at last it becomes intolerable and is burst asunder, as in poor Clara's
case;--the more I am resolved not to commit that first fatal step of
entering into a marriage without--without the degree of affection which
people who take that vow ought to feel for one another.


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