He let himself drift with the tide that was so much stronger than himself; and if there were breakers ahead, or fatal rocks lurking invisible beneath the blue waters, he must take his chance.

His frail bark must go to pieces when her time came.

In the meanwhile it was so delicious to float upon the summer sea, that a man could afford to forget future possibilities in the way of rocks and quicksands.
Miss Paget had known very few pleasures in the course of her uncared-for youth; but she hitherto had experienced no such anguish as that which she had now to endure in her daily intercourse with Valentine and Charlotte.

She underwent her martyrdom bravely, and no prying eye discovered the sufferings which her proud nature supported in silence.

"Who takes any heed of my feelings, or cares whether I am glad or sorry ?" she thought; "_he_ does not.".