As if I could have thought of such a thing happening, and that woman to say all the bad things of us she can turn her tongue to! I sha'n't never get another place; I'm thrown out on the wide world!" It was a phrase she had got out of her penny fiction; and very remarkable indeed was the mixture of acting and real sentiment which marked her utterances throughout.
Julian's shame and anger began to turn to compassion.

A woman in tears was a sight which always caused him the keenest distress.
"But," he cried, with tears in his own eyes, "it is impossible that you should suffer all this through me, and I not even make an attempt to clear you of such vile charges!" "It was my own fault.

I was thoughtless.

I ought to have known that people's always ready to think harm.

But I think of nothing when I'm with you, Julian!" He had disengaged himself from her hands, and was holding one of them in his own.