And no doubt you are the best judge of your private circumstances.

I must ask you to let me think over the matter for a day or two.

I will write to you.' 'And I to you,' thought Godwin; a resolve which enabled him to rise with something like a conventional smile, and thus put an end to a very brief and quite unsatisfactory interview.
He strode homewards in a state of feverish excitement.

His own behaviour had been wretchedly clownish; he was only too well aware of that.

He ought to have put aside all the grosser aspects of his case, and have exhibited the purely intellectual motives which made such a change as he purposed seem desirable to him.