Even if he had gone to prison, as he would, he might have faced the world when he came out again; and if he'd done all the good he could in it, it might have been hard to convince them he was good, but it would never be impossible.

If God forgives us, sooner or later our fellow-creatures will forgive us, if we live a true life.

I would have stood by him in the face of the world, and you would, and Madame and the children.

He would not have been left alone, and it would have ended in every one else coming round to us.

Oh, why should he die when you were just going to see each other again!" Felicita had sunk down again into the chair which had been carried for her to the shore, and Phebe sat down on the sands at her feet.