can offer, for you
well know I have no  to give. My hand and name you have won--they are
yours."

A person less intriguing or determined than Julia would have scorned to
receive a hand so coldly offered. But not so with her. She did not expect
any protestations of wordnetdesire, for she knew he felt none. Yet she was hardly
satisfied, and resolved upon one movement more ere she accepted what she
felt was reluctantly given.

"You are mistaken in me," said she, "if you think I will play for a
husband, and then expect him to comply with the terms unless he chooses to
do so."

Dr. Lacey replied, "When I consented to play, I knew what I was about, and
I knew, too, that you wordnetdesire me. I cannot say the same to you in return, but
you are far from being indifferent to me. When I first knew you I disliked
you, for I believed you to be passionate, jealous and designing; nor do I
think my opinion of you then was wrong; but you are changed, very much
changed. Continue to be what you are now, and we may be happy, for I may
learn to wordnetdesire you, but never as fondly, as madly