If he had touched this verity however remotely, she would not have married him.

The man who speaks the straight-forward truth in such circumstances might as well put a knife to his throat, if love and life are synonyms.
Honest John, thrusting his hands well towards the bottom of his pockets, smiles sheepishly, yet knowingly, in listening to this "discourse." Courtship is one thing and marriage is another in his code.

Mary's primal mistake is in assuming--( upon John's authority, I regret as his advocate to say), that the two states are one and the same.

Moonlight vows and noonday action should, according to her theory, be in exact harmony.

John does not deceive consciously.
Wemmick's office tenets differed diametrically from those he held at Walworth where his aged parent toasted the muffins, and Miss.