He did not profess to understand the young men of our time; but certainly the fellow had the instincts of a gentleman.

He had nothing to say against him, unless in that business with that man--what was his name?
"Stoller ?" March prompted.

"I don't excuse him in that, but I don't blame him so much, either.

If punishment means atonement, he had the opportunity of making that right very suddenly, and if pardon means expunction, then I don't see why that offence hasn't been pretty well wiped out.
"Those things are not so simple as they used to seem," said the general, with a seriousness beyond his wont in things that did not immediately concern his own comfort or advantage.
LXXVI.
In the mean time Mrs.March and Miss Triscoe were discussing another offence of Burnamy's.
"It wasn't," said the girl, excitedly, after a plunge through all the minor facts to the heart of the matter, "that he hadn't a perfect right to do it, if he thought I didn't care for him.

I had refused him at Carlsbad, and I had forbidden him to speak to me about--on the subject.
But that was merely temporary, and he ought to have known it.