As, however, he has learned to love the beast, he puts up with this mischance, and never dreams of banishing poor Ponto from his hearth because of this failure.

And so it was with Mrs.
Clavering and her husband at the rectory.

He understood it all.

He knew that he was so far rejected; and he acknowledged to himself the necessity for such rejection.
"It is a very serious thing to decide upon," he said, when his son had spoken to him.
"Yes; it is serious--about as serious a thing as a man can think of; but a man cannot put it off on that account.

If I mean to make such a change in my plans, the sooner I do it the better." "But yesterday you were in another mind." "No, father, not in another mind.