But I feel bound to stand up for you, as my pupil you know, and I maintain that you're not of that watery quality.

So mind you don't disgrace my judgment." Arthur winced under this speech, for keen old Mrs.Irwine's opinion about him had the disagreeable effect of a sinister omen.

This, to be sure, was only another reason for persevering in his intention, and getting an additional security against himself.

Nevertheless, at this point in the conversation, he was conscious of increased disinclination to tell his story about Hetty.

He was of an impressible nature, and lived a great deal in other people's opinions and feelings concerning himself; and the mere fact that he was in the presence of an intimate friend, who had not the slightest notion that he had had any such serious internal struggle as he came to confide, rather shook his own belief in the seriousness of the struggle.