But I am afraid.

He's a deal too kindly and good-natured, and he'd marry a girl to-morrow merely to please her.

And then some day quite casually he would come across the woman who was meant by Providence for him, and there would be the devil to pay and the ruin of one good man.

I don't mean that he'd make a fool of himself or anything of that sort, for he's not a cad; but in the middle of his pleasant domesticity he would get a glimpse of what he might have been, and those glimpses are not forgotten." "Why, George, you are getting dithyrambic," said Arthur, still smiling, but with a new vague respect in his heart.
"For you cannot harness the wind or tie--tie the bonds of the wild ass," said George, with an air of quotation.

"At any rate, we're going to look after him.