Why had he carried out this impulse--taken such wild trouble to effect a probable injury to his own and his young wife's prospects?
His motive was fantastic, glowing, shapeless as the fiery scenery about the western sky.

Mrs.
Charmond could overtly be nothing more to him than a patient now, and to his wife, at the outside, a patron.

In the unattached bachelor days of his first sojourning here how highly proper an emotional reason for lingering on would have appeared to troublesome dubiousness.
Matrimonial ambition is such an honorable thing.
"My father has told me that you have sent off one of the men with a late letter to Budmouth," cried Grace, coming out vivaciously to meet him under the declining light of the sky, wherein hung, solitary, the folding star.

"I said at once that you had finally agreed to pay the premium they ask, and that the tedious question had been settled.

When do we go, Edgar ?" "I have altered my mind," said he.