In other words, it would have been to acknowledge that I had committed some dishonourable action." "It seems to me that to get away would have been the best way out of it.
They would not have caught you if you had trusted to me, and if they did not catch you they could not prove anything against you." "The suspicion would have remained, and the disgrace in my own eyes," answered the Count.

"The question of physical fear is very different.

I have been told that it depends upon the nerves and the action of the heart, and that courage is greatly increased by the presence of nourishment in the stomach.

The same cannot be said of moral bravery, which proceeds more from the fear of seeming contemptible in our own eyes than from the wish to seem honourable in the estimation of others." "I daresay," said Dumnoff, who was growing sleepy and who understood very little of his companion's homily.
"Precisely," replied the latter.

"And yet even the question of physical courage is very complicated in the present case.