His will was as strong as that of Trevethick, but he had less of caution; and he was at the same time both plodding and audacious.
It would not be well, thought Richard occasionally, to have either of these men for an enemy; and he was right.

Unhappily, it was impossible to win Harry without a quarrel with, at least, one of them, and rather than lose her he was prepared to defy them both.

If he could but have lifted a corner of the curtain that veils the future--well, even then, so mad was he by this time with the love of her, that he would almost have defied them still..