He felt sure that the man would ill-use her and make her wretched.

He had some slight doubt whether he would marry her, and from this doubt he endeavoured to draw a scrap of comfort.

If Crosbie would desert her, and if to him might be accorded the privilege of beating the man to death with his fists because of this desertion, then the world would not be quite blank for him.

In all this he was no doubt very cruel to Lily;--but then had not Lily been very cruel to him?
He was still thinking of these things when he came to the first of the Guestwick pastures.

The boundary of the earl's property was very plainly marked, for with it commenced also the shady elms along the roadside, and the broad green margin of turf, grateful equally to those who walked and to those who rode.