'You have avoided a great folly.
You will be able to meet your good old peasant.

You have found an excellent investment for a friend's money.

You have preferred essential kindness to an empty scruple; and now you are ashamed of it! You have made your friend happy; and now you mourn as the dove! Come, cheer up.
I know it is depressing to have done exactly right; but you need not make a practice of it.

Forgive yourself this virtue; come now, look me in the face and smile!' He did look at her.

When a man has been embraced by a woman, he sees her in a glamour; and at such a time, in the baffling glimmer of the stars, she will look wildly well.