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She knows that this is not a period for bringing the rough light upon him; she thinks his tears too sacred to be seen, even by her.

His noble earnestness, his fidelity, his gallant shielding of her, his general conquest of his own wrong & his own pride for her sake, are simply honorable, manly, & true. Nothing less worthy can be seen through the lustre of such qualities in the commonest mechanic, nothing less worthy can be seen in the best-born gentleman. In such a light both aspire alike, both rise alike, both children of the dust shine equally.

Then Caddy hung upon her father, and nursed his cheek against hers as if he were some poor dull child in pain. All this took place in the hall. Her father released her, took out his pocket-handkerchief, and sat down on the stairs with his head against the wall. I hope he found some consolation in walls. I almost think he did.

Mr. Gusher, being a flabby gentleman with a moist surface, and eyes so much too small for his moon of a face that they seem to have been originally made for somebody else, was not at first sight prepossessing; yet he was scarcely seated, before Mr. Quale asked Ada and me, not in audibly, whether he was not a great creature — which he certainly was, flabbily speaking...

Allegory... sprawls among balustrades and pillars, flowers and clouds, and makes the head ache as would seem to be Allegory's object always, more or less.

( Of Tulkinghorn) Here he is today, quiet at his table. An oyster of the old school, whom nobody can open.