He still recoiled, therefore, from the idea of such a leveling of himself as he counted it would be to show her anything like the love of a lover.

All pride is more or less mean, but one pride may be grander than another, and Godfrey was not herein proud in any grand way.

Good fellow as he was, he thought much too much of himself; and, unconsciously comparing it with Letty's, altogether overvalued his worth.

Stranger than any bedfellow misery ever acquainted a man withal, are the heart-fellows he carries about with him.

Noble as in many ways Wardour was, and kind as, to Letty, he thought he always was, he was not generous toward her; he was not Prince Arthur, "the Knight of Magnificence." Something may perhaps be allowed on the score of the early experience because of which he had resolved--pridefully, it is true--never again to come under the power of a woman; it was unworthy of any man, he said, to place his peace in a hand which could thenceforth wring his whole being with agony.