The Bible says 'it is glory, to
pass by a transgression.' "
"But suppose he was afraid of being thought afraid?"
I looked at my companion, and felt instinctively sure that
neither this nor my first supposed case would ever be true of
him. Further, I felt sure that no one would ever be hardy
enough to give the supposed occasion. I can hardly tell how I
knew; it was by some of those indescribable natural signs. We
were slowly mounting the hill; and in every powerful, lithe
movement, in the very set of his shoulders and head, and as
well in the sparkle of the bright eye which looked round at
me, I read the tokens of a spirit which I thought neither had
known nor ever would know the sort of indignity he had
described. He was talking for talk's sake. But while I looked,
the sparkle of the eye grew very merry.
"You are judging me, Miss Randolph," he said. "Judge me
gently."
"No indeed," I said. "I was thinking that you are not speaking
from experience."
"I am not better than you think me," he said, laughing and
shaking his head.
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