Spite is more often fattened than propitiated by penitence.

He may have thought besides (policy not being always a vacant space in revengeful acts) that Anthony was capable of something stronger and warmer, now that his humanity had been aroused.

The speculation is commonly perilous; but Farmer Fleming had the desperation of a man who has run slightly into debt, and has heard the first din of dunning, which to the unaccustomed imagination is fearful as bankruptcy (shorn of the horror of the word).

And, moreover, it was so wonderful to find Anthony displaying humanity at all, that anything might be expected of him.

"Let's see what he will do," thought the farmer in an interval of his wrath; and the wrath is very new which has none of these cool intervals.