These women have no support outside themselves--they have deliberately cast away everything of the kind." "Let me exhibit my meaning from another point of view.

Consider, Mr.
Blenkinsop"---- Quarrier, in the meantime, was very far from suspecting the accusation which hostile ingenuity had brought against him.

Decency would in any case have necessitated his withdrawal for the present from public affairs, and, in truth, he was stricken down by his calamity.

The Liversedges had brought him to their house; he transacted no business, and saw no one beyond the family circle.

At the funeral people had thought him strangely unmoved; pride forbade him to make an exhibition of grief, but in secret he suffered as only a strong man can.