Then Gerard was impatient and unjust.
"Very well!" he cried; "then you are on their side, and you will drive me to be a priest, for this must end one way or another.

My parents hate me in earnest, but my lover only loves me in jest." And with this wild, bitter speech, he flung away home again, and left Margaret weeping.
When a man misbehaves, the effect is curious on a girl who loves him sincerely.

It makes her pity him.

This, to some of us males, seems anything but logical.

The fault is in our own eye; the logic is too swift for us.