Amelia stood scared and silent as William thus suddenly broke the chain by which she held him and declared his independence and superiority. She didn’t wish to marry him, but she wished to keep him.
George Osborne having come to dinner, and the elders of the house having departed, there came on such
all was over between her and George – all over between her and love, her and happiness, her and faith in the world
Poor little Amelia blushed as she kissed her friend, and thought she had been guilty of something very like coldness towards her.
were of such an unromantic nature that they are hardly fit to be explained in this sentimental novel.