When he had made a clean breast of it, he felt as if relieved of half his load--especially when Owen assured him that women were all alike, and that when you asked them the first time, they were as proud as Lucifer.
'It is first and last with me, Owen.

I have forgotten my position, my profession, my own dignity in giving way to a passion that I had no right to suppose could be returned.

I will crush it, and nobody but you shall ever know of its existence.

This struggle over, and I shall hope henceforth to have but one Master and to serve Him.' 'Well, I never should have thought you would have fancied Miss Gwynne; not but that she is handsome and clever and very agreeable and kind, too, when she pleases; but so proud, so domineering, and then--' 'Neither should I have supposed Gladys to be your choice, Owen; and I am sorry it should be so.

What would my father say?
so soon upon Netta, too; and you must confess that her uncertain history, her present condition, the way she came to us, would be utter barriers to anything serious.' 'Bravo, Rowland; now I must put the application to your lecture.