I fear I must have learned dissimulation well; for, after a minute, I looked at her, and saw, from the absence of any curious anxiety, that I had betrayed nothing.

She looked me straight in the eyes and said: "Dr.
Marmion, a man must not expect to be forgiven, who has brought shame on a woman." "Not even when he has repented and atoned ?" "Atoned! How mad you are! How can there be atonement?
You cannot wipe things out--on earth.

We are of the earth.

Records remain.

If a man plays the fool, the coward, and the criminal, he must expect to wear the fool's cap, the white feather, and the leg-chain until his life's end.
And now, please, let us change the subject.