"Because I did not know so much kindness could be hid behind so much pride."
"Do you think the world deserves seeing our heart?"
"A strange question from the lips of so young a lady."
"To be sure, we are not expected to think. At best we are pretty dolls, to play with and to be given away to the first man who looks as if he would like to have us."
"Cousin!" called Felix, "we are going down to the beach; will you join us?"
"No," answered Helen, without looking round at the speaker.
"It is a charming walk," added Felix.
"May be," replied the young girl, curtly, without changing her position.
But Felix was not the man to be defeated so easily. He came up to the place where Oswald and Helen were sitting, and said:
"But, Helen, surely you will not refuse me the first request I ever made of you?"