Do the best you can.' They parted midway up the street, Gower bearing away a sharp contrast of the earl and his countess; for, until their senses are dulled, impressionable young men, however precociously philosophical, are mastered by appearances; and they have to reflect under new lights before vision of the linked eye and mind is given them.
Fleetwood jumped into his carriage and ordered the coachman to drive smartly.

He could not have admitted the feeling small; he felt the having been diminished, and his requiring a rapid transportation from these parts for him to regain his proper stature.

Had he misconducted himself at the moment of danger?
It is a ghastly thought, that the craven impulse may overcome us.

But no, he could reassure his repute for manliness.

He had done as much as a man could do in such a situation.
At the same time, he had done less than the woman.
Needed she to have gone so far?
Why precipitate herself into the jaws of the beast?
Now she, proposes to burn the child's wound.