For fear it should come to his father's knowledge, he kept that marriage secret from all.
He durst not own his marriage to his father." "He was not--as you may have appreciated in the years you lived with him--a man of any profound feeling for others.

For himself he had a prodigiously profound feeling, as you may also have gathered.

That marriage in France was troublesome.

He had come to look upon it as one of his youth's follies--as he, himself, described it to me in this house, little knowing to whom he spoke.

When he received the false news of her death--for he did receive such news from the very cousin who crossed from France to avenge her, believing her dead himself--he rejoiced at his near escape from the consequences of his folly.