1 I felt it would be degrading to faint with hunger on the causeway of a hamlet.
2 If you were my real sister it would be different: I should take you, and seek no wife.
3 I dared not offer her the half-worn gloves, the creased handkerchief: besides, I felt it would be absurd.
4 With that refreshment I could perhaps regain a degree of energy: without it, it would be difficult to proceed.
5 The reason of my departure I cannot and ought not to explain: it would be useless, dangerous, and would sound incredible.
6 I longed to go where there was life and movement: Millcote was a large manufacturing town on the banks of the A-; a busy place enough, doubtless: so much the better; it would be a complete change at least.
7 I felt it would be injudicious to confine her too much at first; so, when I had talked to her a great deal, and got her to learn a little, and when the morning had advanced to noon, I allowed her to return to her nurse.
8 Thus engaged, he appeared, sitting in his own recess, quiet and absorbed enough; but that blue eye of his had a habit of leaving the outlandish-looking grammar, and wandering over, and sometimes fixing upon us, his fellow-students, with a curious intensity of observation: if caught, it would be instantly withdrawn; yet ever and anon, it returned searchingly to our table.