I mean this: to strike so hard that, in the end, you soften your heart to the victim.

Well, that is my weakness.

And we of our blood put no restraint on the blows we strike when we think them wanted, so we are always overdoing it.' General Ople assisted Lady Camper to alight from the carriage, which was forthwith despatched for Elizabeth.
He prepared to listen to her with a disconnected smile of acute attentiveness.
She had changed.

She spoke of money.

Ten thousand pounds must be settled on his daughter.