They had not brains or courage enough to keep them out of gaol, and they have not pluck or brains enough to succeed--afterwards.

Your friend Anson was quite gentlemanly in his action at the last.

He had some sense of the fitness of things.

He could not find a place in the world without making other people uncomfortable, and causing trouble.

If he had lived, he would always have added to the blight on his wife's career, and have been an arrow--not a thorn--in her side.