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There are reater portion ofthe nuue was a poor creature, in that he felt so great a repugnance to face this wo at first under the battery of her charement, unwise as it was, and his subsequent deterement, will be pardoned Women, and perhaps some men also, will feel that it was natural that he should have been charmed, natural that he should have expressed his admiration in the form which unmarried ladies expect from unmarried men when any such expression is to be made at all;-- natural also that he should endeavour to escape froers of the step which he had proposed to take No woman, I think, will be hard upon him because of his breach of faith to Mrs Hurtle But they will be very hard on him on the score of his cowardice,--as, I think, unjustly In social life we hardly stop to consider how ives h purpose, or true courage The man who succuhter, the ht to servility by a continual aversion to the giving of pain, by a softness which causes the fretfulness of others to be an agony to himself,--as by any actual fear which the firmness of the imperious one may have produced There is an inner softness, a thinness of theof the troubles of others with equani akin to fear; but which is coe, but with absolute firmness of purpose, when the dely as to assert itself With this man it was not really that He feared the woman;--or at least such fears did not prevail upon hi her to the blank misery of utter desertion After what had passed between the himself to tell her that he wanted her no further and to bid her go But that hat he had to do And for that his answer to her last question prepared the way 'It was nearly that,' he said

'Mr Carbury did take it upon hi yourself on the sands at Lowestoft with such a one as I am?'