I am full of generous impulses and sentiments, but what's the use of them?
Everything grows cold and I am a dumb icicle when it comes to action.

I knew all this before, but I thought I had kept my bodily courage.

I've had a good enough training, and I used to have pluck." "But you don't mean to tell me that it was funk that kept you out of the pool to-day ?" cried the impatient Wratislaw.
"How do I know that it wasn't ?" came the wretched answer.
Wratislaw turned on his heel and made to go back.
"You're an infernal idiot, Lewie, and an infernal child.

Thank heaven! your friends know you better than you know yourself." The next morning it was a different man who came down to breakfast.

He had lost his haggard air, and seemed to have forgotten the night's episode.
"Was I very rude to everybody last night ?" he asked.