That will occupy her mind, and prevent her thinking of injuring me.

She's deucedly more clever than I am." What astonished him, was that he had not been the first to think of plunging into vice, which might have driven away his terror.

But his thoughts had never turned in that direction, and, moreover, he had not the least inclination for riotous living.

The infidelity of his wife did not trouble him in the least.

He felt no anger at the knowledge that she was in the arms of another man.