Whatever _you_ may do, I cannot break faith.

You ought to know me better than to misinterpret a few foolish and hasty words, and appearances that had a meaning you should have understood.

The time has come now for putting an end to those misconceptions." "They no longer concern me.

Please to speak of something else." "You must, at all events, understand my position before we part.

This morning I was as firmly resolved as ever to risk everything, to renounce the aid of my relatives if it must be and face poverty for the sake of art.