The things we do!

"
"That of which you were talking last night? Are you bent upon it?"
"Yes, I am determined on it."
Laura heard a child's cry at this moment, and left the room with a
parting glance at her husband, who in fact had talked over the matter
with Mrs. Pendennis, and agreed with her in opinion.
As the Colonel had opened the question, I ventured to make a respectful
remonstrance against the scheme. Vindictiveness on the part of a man so
simple and generous, so fair and noble in all his dealings as Thomas
Newcome, appeared in my mind unworthy of him. Surely his kinsman had
sorrow and humiliation enough already at home. Barnes's further
punishment, we thought, might be left to time, to remorse, to the Judge
of right and wrong; Who better understands than we can do, our causes and
temptations towards evil actions, Who reserves the sentence for His own
tribunal. But when angered, the best of us mistake our own motives, as we
do those of the enemy who inflames us. What may be private revenge, we
take to be indignant virtue and just revolt against wrong.


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