I'm rather surprised you let them stay after what I had told you.
Certainly I shall not overlook it.

The thing's finished I it's no good talking about it.' The fear had passed, but the coldness about her heart was more deadly.
For a moment it seemed as if she could not bring herself to utter another word; she drew apart, she could not raise her face, which was beautiful in marble pain.

But there came a rush of such hot anguish as compelled her to speak again.

Something more than the fate of that poor family was at stake.

Is not the quality of mercy indispensable to true nobleness?
Had she voiced her very thought, Adela would have implored him to exalt himself in her eyes, to do a good deed which cost him some little effort over himself.