And if I were, I am not a youngster, and my life is a tolerably full one.

I could hold myself in and trample it down if it were best to do so.

I can hardly imagine myself absorbed in a great passion.

My bachelor life is a good many years old--my habits won't break up easily.

And, supposing I felt the beginnings of it, I could stop it if reason were against it.' He left his chair, and began to pace up and down the room, thinking.