Many a man as intelligent and manly as Hartsook has done quite as foolish a thing as that.

You have been a little silly perhaps--if it is silly--and you have acted in a sentimental sort of a way over such things.

But it would never do for me to tell you what Ralph did?
Whether he put the letter into his bosom or not, he put the words into his heart, and, metaphorically speaking, he shook that little blue billet, written or coarse foolscap paper--he shook that little letter full of confidence, in the face and eyes of all the calamities that haunted him.

If Hannah believed in him, the whole world might distrust him.

When Hannah was in one scale and the whole world in the other, of what account was the world?
Justice may be blind, but all the pictures of blind cupids in the world can not make Love blind.