You will be acting in a way utterly unworthy of a man who has studied and reflected.' Thyrza heard Egremont laugh.
'To hear all this from you,' he said, 'surprises me very much.' 'You credit me with so little power of mind ?' 'I thought you were the last to talk the common talk of the world that has outlived its generous instincts.' 'Pray believe that there is such a thing as outliving youthful passion, and yet retaining all the generous feeling that you speak of.

I am not an ignoble schemer, and you know that I am not.

Think over my arguments before you scorn me.' 'You think me so boyish and weak-minded that I cannot distinguish between pure love and base?
One thing I left out of my narrative just now.

I ought to have said that I was _not_ wholly without blame in that intercourse.

I strove with myself to seem nothing more than friendly to her, and yet I know that at times I spoke as no mere friend would have done, and simply because I could not help it.