I shall do this, and avoid that, simply owing to a preponderance of motives, which I can gauge, but not control.

Certain things I hate and shrink from; but I try to avoid, even in thought, such words as vice and crime; the murderer could not help himself, and the saint has no merit in his sanctity.

Does all this seem horrible to you ?" Maud raised her eyes, and looked steadily at him, but did not speak.

It was the gaze of one who tries humbly to understand, and longs to sympathise.

But there was a shadow of something like fear upon her face.
Waymark spoke with more earnestness.
"You will not think me incapable of what we call noble thought and feeling?
I have in me the elements of an enthusiast; they might have led me to strange developments, but for that cold, critical spirit which makes me so intensely self-conscious.