And I was perfectly willing to do that.

I have always kept that in mind as one of my duties to him, ever since I understood what his relation to the magazine was." "Yes, I can bear witness to that in any court of justice.

You've done it a great deal more than I could, Basil.

And it was just the same way with those horrible insurance people." "I know," March went on, trying to be proof against her flatteries, or at least to look as if he did not deserve praise; "I know that what Lindau said was offensive to him, and I can understand how he felt that he had a right to punish it.

All I say is that he had no right to punish it through me." "Yes," said Mrs.March, askingly.
"If it had been a question of making 'Every Other Week' the vehicle of Lindau's peculiar opinions--though they're not so very peculiar; he might have got the most of them out of Ruskin--I shouldn't have had any ground to stand on, or at least then I should have had to ask myself whether his opinions would be injurious to the magazine or not." "I don't see," Mrs.March interpolated, "how they could hurt it much worse than Colonel Woodburn's article crying up slavery." "Well," said March, impartially, "we could print a dozen articles praising the slavery it's impossible to have back, and it wouldn't hurt us.