"However, I have offended him, I can see; and deeply.

I must go up, and make things right, for the sake of--for everybody's sake." "Then do not ask me anything.

Lucia loves him intensely, and let that be enough for us." The Major saw the truth of the last sentence no more than Valencia herself did; for Valencia would have been glad enough to pour out to him, with every exaggeration, her sister's woes and wrongs, real and fancied, had not the sense of her own folly with Vavasour kept her silent and conscience-stricken.
Valencia remarked the Major's pained look as they walked up the street.
"You dear conscientious Saint Pere, why will you fret yourself about this foolish matter?
He will have forgotten it all in an hour; I know him well enough." Major Campbell was not the sort of person to admire Elsley the more for throwing away capriciously such deep passion as he had seen him show, any more than for showing the same.
"He must be of a very volatile temperament." "Oh, all geniuses are." "I have no respect for genius, Miss St.Just; I do not even acknowledge its existence when there is no strength and steadiness of character.

If any one pretends to be more than a man, he must begin by proving himself a man at all.

Genius?
Give me common sense and common decency! Does he give Mrs.Vavasour, pray, the benefit of any of these pretty flights of genius ?" Valencia was frightened.