The Blind Man's Eyes Bonner went away without another word of love to her.

He saw the futility of hoping, and he was noble enough to respect her plea for silence on the subject that seemed distasteful to her.

He went as one conquered and subdued; he went with the iron in his heart for the first time--deeply imbedded and racking.
Bonner came twice from the place across the river.

Anderson observed that he looked "peaked," and Rosalie mistook the hungry, wan look in his face for the emaciation natural to confinement indoors.

He was whiter than was his wont, and there was a dogged, stubborn look growing about his eyes and mouth that would have been understood by the sophisticated.
It was the first indication of the battle his love was to wage in days to come.