I set out to take a long walk, and was absent most of the day.

Her question kept coming up to me, and I tried to drive it away.

The effort made me angry and ended in a decision to be sterner than ever.

I would not yield a point; I would import a body of men at large expense and keep them at work, just because I was too proud to undo what I knew was wrong.
"Still my conscience troubled me, but for all that I don't think I would have yielded.

Pride, the greatest of all stumbling-blocks, was in my way.