'If he has been stern and injudicious with his poor young brother, he has long ago repented of his hardness.

He is very good to them all, but they will not try to understand him: it is not right of Gladys to treat him as a stranger.
I am sorry for them all, but I begin to feel that Mr.Hamilton is not the only one to blame.' I wished I could have told him this, but I knew the words would never get themselves spoken.

I might be sorry for him in my heart, but I could never tell him so, never assure him of my true sympathy.

I was far too much in awe of him: there are some men one would never venture to pity.
But all the same I longed to do him some secret service; he had been kind to me, and had helped me much in my work.

If I could only succeed in bringing him and Gladys nearer together, if I could make them understand each other, I felt I would have spared no pains or trouble to do so.
If he were not so infatuated on the subject of his cousin's merits, I thought scornfully, I should be no more sanguine about my success; but Miss Darrell had hoodwinked him completely.