You say you know nothing.

Is it manly to repeat what one hears about a poor forlorn woman ?' Then the Captain retreated without another word, owning to himself that he was beaten.

If this foolish young man chose to make for himself a bed of that kind he must lie upon it.

Captain Munday went away shrugging his shoulders, and spoke no further word to John Caldigate on that or any other subject during the voyage.
Caldigate had driven off his persecutors valiantly, and had taught them all to think that he was resolute in his purposes in regard to Mrs.
Smith, let those purposes be what they might; but nothing could be further from the truth; for he had no purposes and was, within his own mind, conscious of his lack of all purpose, and very conscious of his folly.

And though he could repel Mrs.Callander and the Captain,--as he had always repelled those who had attempted to control him,--still he knew that they had been right.