If I can hammer the raw native levies into shape and keep order along a disturbed frontier, it will lead to something better.

Now, I'm neither a military genius nor altogether a careless idler--I believe I can do this work; but, coming rather late, it has less attraction for me.
Well, I would let the chance slip, for one reason only; but if I'm to go on continually repressing myself and only allowed to see you at long intervals, I might as well go away.

You must clearly understand on what terms I remain." She made a little appealing gesture.
"Yes," she said; "but you must wait and not press me too hard.

I am so fenced in by conventions; so many people's susceptibilities have to be considered.

I haven't a girl's liberty." Bland supposed this was as far as she ventured in allusion to her widowed state; but, stirred as he was by her implied submission, it struck him as significant that she should so clearly recognize the restrictions conventionality imposed on her.
"I think," he returned, "the two people who deserve most consideration are you and myself." "Ah!" said Sylvia, "you deserve it most.