I verily believe that a man's way with women is in inverse ratio to his prowess among men. The weakling and the saphead have often great ability to charm the fair sex, while the fighting man who can face a thousand real dangers unafraid, sits hiding in the shadows like some frightened child.

To lose the only creature in all his world who ever had manifested love and affection for him was the greatest tragedy he had ever known.

... but life would be very miserable indeed were I to spend it in terror of the thing that has not yet happened.