She is too cold and proud to love any one, he tells himself.
But Captain Lockhart, stealing a furtive glance at the beautiful face in its high-bred repose, tells himself sadly: "She is utterly indifferent to what fate I meet.
I was rash and hasty in my last interview with her," he tells himself, "I should have remembered that love cannot be forced.
He does her bidding mechanically; then he turns and looks at her standing beside him in her pretty gown, the one woman, so he tells himself, who is all in all to him.
She is safe enough," he tells himself a dozen times; but he finds no comfort in his own assertions.
If the fellow were once out of the country I should feel all right," he tells himself.
The change in his manner has not touched her; nay, he tells himself it has not so much as been noticed by her.
He tells himself he will know at once what it is she means--what is the worth of her love.
Gazing at her with open and sincere admiration, he tells himself that "Nature might no more her child advance.
There is some balm in Gilead, he tells himself, as he sees she is totally unaware of his meaning.
It has gone quite far enough he tells himself--five minutes more and he would have found himself in a rather embarrassing position.
His life, he tells himself, is hopelessly embittered.
She is fairly roused now, and Mr. Browne regarding her with a proud eye, tells himself he is about to have his reward at last.
That sleepless torture, he tells himself, is nothing but the sense of insecurity and the fear of retaliation.
This then, he tells himself, is the fear that will not let him sleep; and it will die with Banquo.
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