I have neglected the plainest lessons of reason and experience.
I have staked my happiness without calculating the chances of the dice.
I have hewn out broken cisterns; I have leant on a reed; I have built on the sand; and I have fared accordingly.

I must bear my punishment as I can; and, above all, I must take care that the punishment does not extend beyond myself.
Nothing can be kinder than Nancy's conduct has been.

She proposes that we should form one family; and Trevelyan, (though, like most lovers, he would, I imagine, prefer having his goddess to himself,) consented with strong expressions of pleasure.

The arrangement is not so strange as it might seem at home.

The thing is often done here; and those quarrels between servants, which would inevitably mar any such plan in England, are not to be apprehended in an Indian establishment.