The vials of wrath which would doubtless be poured out upon his head would not come from her.

In his heart of hearts he feared both the priest and the mother.

But there are moments in which a man feels himself obliged to encounter all that he most fears;--and the man who does not do so in such moments is a coward.
He quite made up his mind to start early on the following morning; but the intermediate hours were very sad and heavy, and his whole outlook into life was troublesome to him.

How infinitely better would it have been for him had he allowed himself to be taught a twelvemonth since that his duty required him to give up the army at once! But he had made his bed, and now he must lie upon it.

There was no escape from this journey to Ardkill.