He had a real, if unobtrusive, contempt for groundlings, of whatever class; and it never entered his head to step an inch out of his course in deference to their vagaries.

Nor did it come home to him that Mrs.Noel, wrapped in the glamour which he cast about her, could possibly suffer from the meanness of vulgar minds.

Shropton's note, indeed, caused him the more annoyance of those two documents.

It was like his brother-in-law to make much of little! He hardly dozed at all during his swift journey through the sleeping country; nor when he reached his room at Monkland did he go to bed.

He had the wonderful, upborne feeling of man on the verge of achievement.
His spirit and senses were both on fire--for that was the quality of this woman, she suffered no part of him to sleep, and he was glad of her exactions.
He drank some tea; went out, and took a path up to the moor.