But all that is past; whatever bitterness I felt against her at first--and I do not think I was ever very bitter--has passed away.

I am nothing now but her friend, her steadfast and constant friend." "Thank heaven that she has such a friend," Ellen said earnestly.

"And you will make it your business to look for her, sir ?" "The chief object of my life, from this hour." "And you will try to discover whether her husband is really true, or whether the search that he has made for her has been a blind to hide his own guilt ?" "What grounds have you for supposing his guilt possible ?" asked Gilbert.
"There are crimes too detestable for credibility; and this would be such a one.

You may imagine that I have no friendly feeling towards this man, yet I cannot for an instant conceive him capable of harming a hair of his wife's head." "Because you have not brooded upon this business as I have, sir, for hours and hours together, until the smallest things seem to have an awful meaning.

I have thought of every word and every look of Mr.Holbrook's in the past, and all my thoughts have pointed one way.