I would be proud to stand by it, and you would be convinced.

I can't find words to describe my objection to your state of mind.' The thing seemed to me to be a foregone conclusion.

I saw it accomplished, with all its possibilities of disastrous commonplace.

I saw all that I have here taken the trouble to foreshadow.

So far as I was concerned, Dacres's burden would add itself to my philosophies, voila tout.