She was pretty to look at, and I liked--but you cannot understand the weakness of a man that makes him ashamed of himself.

I left you, and--I went--courting her because she was Parson Fair's only daughter, and I was poor, and that was not all the reason.

I liked her pretty face and her pretty ways well enough, but all the time it was you and you alone in my heart; and, knowing that, I left you, though I was a man.

I turned Judas to my own self, and denied and would have sold the best that was in me.

Now you know the truth, Madelon Hautville." Madelon looked at him.