I undertook to send a ruthless flaming angel of a Cliffe to pronounce the inexorable decree of exile.

After a few faint-hearted objections he acquiesced in the scheme.

I fancy he revolted against even this apparent surrender to Gedge, although he was too proud to confess it.

No man likes running away.

Sir Anthony also regarded as pusillanimous the proposal to leave his wife in ignorance until he had led her into the trap of holiday.