People had to endure such things.

Yet he was miserable, watching furtively her dimmed roses and the circles about her eyes.

His little Nell, who had lived in the sunshine all her days! It was, perhaps, not to be wondered at that, in the perturbation of his mind, the pendulum should have swung towards Robin.

"Confound the fellow!"-- (meaning Captain Langrishe)--"What did he mean by making Nelly unhappy ?" A still, small voice whispered to the General that the young man was acting on some foolish, overstrained, honourable scruple just as he would have done himself in his youth--nay, to-day, for the matter of that.

But he would not listen to the voice.