'But I think that you ought not to have got that licence without asking me first; and I also think that you ought to have known how it would be if you lived on here in your present position, and made no effort to better it.

I can bear whatever comes, for social ruin is not personal ruin or even personal disgrace.

But as a sensible, new-risen poet says, whom I have been reading this morning:- The world and its ways have a certain worth: And to press a point while these oppose Were simple policy.

Better wait.
As soon as you had got my promise, Nic, you should have gone away--yes--and made a name, and come back to claim me.

That was my silly girlish dream about my hero.' 'Perhaps I can do as much yet! And would you have indeed liked better to live away from me for family reasons, than to run a risk in seeing me for affection's sake?
O what a cold heart it has grown! If I had been a prince, and you a dairymaid, I'd have stood by you in the face of the world!' She shook her head.