No shilly-shallying, no lukewarmness, no indifference to a noble cause.

Faint heart never won fair lady." The waning moon had risen, and now shone upon Carne's face, lighting up all its gloomy beauty, and strange power of sadness.

Dan seemed to lose his clear keen sight beneath the dark influence of the other's gaze; and his will, though not a weak one, dropped before a larger and stronger.
"He knows all about me and Miss Dolly," said the poor young fisherman to himself; "I thought so before, and I am certain of it now.

And, for some reason beyond my knowledge, he wishes to encourage it.

Oh, perhaps because the Carnes have always been against the Darlings! I never thought of that before." This was a bitter reflection to him, and might have inclined him the right way, if time had allowed him to work it out.