I am naturally reticent and retiring--too much so, I dare say--and no misery could have been devised for me more dreadful than this.

Her accusations are atrocious, such as could only come from a grossly impure mind, or at the suggestion of vile creatures.

You she hates with a rabid hatred--God only knows why.

She would hate any one who was my friend, and whose society relieved me for a moment from my ghastly torments!" He ceased for very exhaustion, so terribly did the things he described work upon him.
"What am I to do, Waymark?
Can you give me advice ?" Waymark had listened with his eyes cast down, and he was silent for some time after Julian ceased.
"You couldn't well ask for advice in a more difficult case," he said at length.

"There's nothing for it but to strengthen yourself and endure.
Force yourself into work.