For that reason alone, he was ready to curb his fierce impetuosity.

But to leave a free field for Lennox Tudor was not a part of his plan.

He had scarcely begun to regard the man in the light of a serious rival, although fully aware of the fact that Tudor was doing his utmost to remove him from his path.

But if Ina thought him so, he had probably underestimated the danger.
He had always detested Tudor very thoroughly.

Piers never did anything by halves, and the doctor's undisguised criticism of him never failed to arouse his fiercest resentment.