Because I have a character--I assure you I have; a small one, a little slip of a thing, but still something tangible." "Ought you not to tell Felix that it is Mr.Brand, father ?" Charlotte asked, with infinite mildness.
"It is not only Mr.Brand," Mr.Wentworth solemnly declared.

And he looked at his knee for a long time.

"It is difficult to explain," he said.

He wished, evidently, to be very just.

"It rests on moral grounds, as Mr.Brand says.