"A man should be happy when he does his duty."
"We none of us do that so thoroughly as to require no other source of happiness. Go on, Dumpling, and do your duty."
"I see that you are very careful in doing yours."
"Perhaps you will hardly believe me, but I wish Lord Stapledean had never given me the living."
"Well; it is difficult to believe that. Think what it has been for your sisters."
"I know we should have been very poor, but we should not have starved. I had my fellowship, and I could have taken pupils. I am sure we should have been happier. And then—"
"And then—well?" said Adela; and as she spoke, her heart was not quite at rest within her breast.
"Then I should have been free. Since I took that living, I have been a slave." Again he paused a moment, and whipped the horse; but it was only now for a moment that he was silent. "Yes, a slave. Do you not see what a life I live? I could be content to sacrifice myself to my mother if the sacrifice were understood. But you see how it is with her. Nothing that I can do will satisfy her; and yet for her I have sacrificed everything—everything."
"A sacrifice is no sacrifice if it be agreeable. The sacrifice consists in its being painful."
"Well, I suppose so. I say that to myself so often. It is the only consolation I have."