And the reproach I certainly didn't deserve, for I had behaved conscientiously.' 'Isn't it allowed me to disapprove of what your conscience dictates ?' 'Not when you have taken the same view, and acted upon it.

I don't lay claim to many virtues, and I haven't that of meekness.

I could never endure anger; my nature resents it.' 'I did wrong to speak angrily, but indeed I hardly knew what I was saying.

I had suffered a terrible shock.

I loved that poor girl; I loved her all the more for what I had seen of her since she came to implore my help.