Johnny was susceptible, as the word goes; whereas Captain Dale was a man who had his feelings well under control.

He was not one to make a fool of himself about a girl, or to die of a broken heart; but, nevertheless, he would probably love his wife when he got a wife, and would be a careful father to his children.
They were very intimate with each other now,--these four.

It was Bernard and Adolphus, or sometimes Apollo, and Bell and Lily among them; and Crosbie found it to be pleasant enough.

A new position of life had come upon him, and one exceeding pleasant; but, nevertheless, there were moments in which cold fits of a melancholy nature came upon him.

He was doing the very thing which throughout all the years of his manhood he had declared to himself that he would not do.