He also, in those old days, had loved her, and had at once resolved that he must tell her so, though his hopes of success had been poor indeed.

He had taken the first opportunity, and had declared his purpose.

She, with the imperturbable serenity of a matured kind-hearted woman, had patted him on the back, as it were, as she told him of her existing engagement with Mr.Kennedy.Could it be that at that moment she could have loved him as she now said she did, and that she should have been so cold, so calm, and so kind; while, at that very moment, this coldness, calmness, and kindness was but a thin crust over so strong a passion?
How different had been his own love! He had been neither calm nor kind.

He had felt himself for a day or two to be so terribly knocked about that the world was nothing to him.

For a month or two he had regarded himself as a man peculiarly circumstanced,--marked for misfortune and for a solitary life.