"Magnificent." "Then he'll do for himself whatever there may be to do.

What he undertook for you he'll do to the end.

He didn't undertake it to break down; in what--quiet, patient, exquisite as he is--did he ever break down?
He had never in his life proposed to himself to have failed, and he won't have done it on this occasion." "Ah, this occasion!"-- and Maggie's wail showed her, of a sudden, thrown back on it.

"Am I in the least sure that, with everything, he even knows what it is?
And yet am I in the least sure he doesn't ?" "If he doesn't then, so much the better.

Leave him alone." "Do you mean give him up ?" "Leave HER," Fanny Assingham went on.