He winced once or twice, and spoke angrily to it.
"My good woman, as if I did not _know_ that! Men are always behaving heartlessly to women in their opinion.

It is the normal male state.

It is an established fact that we are all brutes.

Why do you want me to marry your paragon if you have such a low opinion of me ?" Still he could not put the letter down.
"It is possible though improbable," wrote that dauntless woman, "that your vacillating and selfish character may have improved sufficiently in the course of years for you to have become aware that you have behaved disgracefully to a woman, who, if she had had any sense, ought never to have given you a second thought, who was and still is deeply attached to you; probably the only person on this earth who has the misfortune to care two pins about you." Lord Lossiemouth tried to feel sarcastic.

He tried to laugh.