The next best thing to do was to try if I could not induce him to compose himself a little, and then to go away and think coolly over the whole affair by myself.
"Yes, yes," he rejoined, in answer to the few words I now spoke to try and calm him, "don't be afraid about me.

After what you have said, I'll answer for my own coolness and composure under all emergencies.

I have been so long used to the apparition that I hardly feel its presence at all except on rare occasions.

Besides, I have here in this little packet of letters the medicine for every malady of the sick heart.

They are Ada's letters; I read them to calm me whenever my misfortune seems to get the better of my endurance.