So we have our bed and board in prospect if fortune fails us, Danvers! 'I would rather die in England, ma'am,' was the maid's reply.
Dacier set foot on his carriage-step.

He drew a long breath to say a short farewell, and he and Diana parted.
They parted as the plainest of sincere good friends, each at heart respecting the other for the repression of that which their hearts craved; any word of which might have carried them headlong, bound together on a Mazeppa-race, with scandal for the hounding wolves, and social ruin for the rocks and torrents.
Dacier was the thankfuller, the most admiring of the two; at the same time the least satisfied.

He saw the abyss she had aided him in escaping; and it was refreshful to look abroad after his desperate impulse.

Prominent as he stood before the world, he could not think without a shudder of behaving like a young frenetic of the passion.
Those whose aim is at the leadership of the English people know, that however truly based the charges of hypocrisy, soundness of moral fibre runs throughout the country and is the national integrity, which may condone old sins for present service; but will not have present sins to flout it.

He was in tune with the English character.