What should I have felt if I had found too late that I had come to love a man who was a coward--who had left the army because he was afraid?
I should have despised myself as much as I should despise him.
Well, that is my first lesson.

I shall not trust in appearances again.
Why, I would rather marry a man like Captain Forster, even if everything they say about him is true, than a man who is a coward.

At least he is brave, and has shown himself so." The Doctor had gone away in a state of extreme irritation.
"Confound the meddling scoundrel!" he said to himself, as he surprised the horse with a sharp cut of the whip.

"Just when things were going on as I wished.

I had quite set my mind on it, and though I am sure Bathurst would never have spoken to her till he had told her himself about that unfortunate failing of his, it would have been altogether different coming from his own lips just as he told it to me.