In that little project he had been interrupted, and the reader knows what had come of it.

Lord Fawn's success had not in the least annoyed him.

He had only half resolved in regard to his cousin.

She was very beautiful no doubt, and there was her income;--but he also knew that those teeth would bite and that those claws would scratch.

But Lord Fawn's success had given a turn to his thoughts, and had made him think, for a moment, that if a man loved, he should be true to his love.