I have lost the faculty of enjoying their destruction, and I am too idle to destroy for nothing.
And from the midst of cheerless gloom I passed to bright unclouded day.
I have to remind myself to breathe -- almost to remind my heart to beat!
I lingered round them, under that benign sky; watched the moths fluttering among the heath and hare-bells; listened to the soft wind breathing through the grass; and wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth.
You must forgive me, for I struggled only for you.
He... was attached by ties stronger than reason could break -- chains, forged by habit, which it would be cruel to attempt to loosen.