But Charlton had lived long enough to observe that people who ought to die, hardly ever do.

You, reader, can recall many instances of this general principle, which, however, I do not remember to have seen stated in any discussions of mortality tables.
After all, Albert reflected that he ought not to expect Kate's lover to satisfy him.

For he flattered himself that he was a somewhat peculiar man--a man of ideas, a man of the future--and he must not expect to conform everybody to his own standard.

Smith Westcott was a man of fine business qualities, he had heard; and most commercial men were, in Albert's estimation, a little weak, morally.

He might be a man of deep feeling, and, as Albert walked home, he made up his mind to be charitable.