But at least they have demonstrated that when companies get into trouble with the law, evidence of good character can win them a less costly punishment.
The fact that a coarseminded man found her lacking in attraction was simply another proof of her quality;yet the words sent a faint shiver through his heart.
His expressing the wish seemed, indeed, the sweetest testimony to the quality of his feeling, since, in the first weeks of the most perfunctory widowerhood, a man of his stamp is presumed to abstain from light adventures.