Was not this anger secret self-discontent?
"Well, love," said Josephine, demurely, "have you dismissed him ?" "No." Josephine smiled feebly.

"It is easy to say 'say no;' but it is not so easy to say 'no,' especially when you feel you ought to say 'yes,' and have no wish either way except to give pleasure to others." "But I am not such skim milk as all that," replied Rose: "I have always a strong wish where you are concerned, and your happiness.

I hesitated whilst I was in doubt, but I doubt no longer: I have had a long talk with him.

He has shown me his whole heart: he is the best, the noblest of creatures: he has no littleness or meanness.

And then he is a thorough man; I know that by his being the very opposite of a woman in his ways.