He was moved at one time by his interests; at another by his idea of his honour.

He took what I could get for him, and then turned and drubbed me for getting it.' 'This is the creature you try to excuse!' exclaimed indignant Emma.
'Yes, because--but fancy all the smart things I said being called my "sallies"!--can a woman live with it ?--because I behaved...

I despised him too much, and I showed it.

He is not a contemptible man before the world; he is merely a very narrow one under close inspection.

I could not--or did not--conceal my feeling.