"I am glad, Walter, that I have satisfied you on that point," was her reply.  "You see there was no sudden excitement to call out or sustain his courage.  It was the bravery of principle, not of mere impulse.  It was so grand because it stood the strain, a daily-increasing strain, of troubles, trials, and hindrances, which kept multiplying in front of him every day and hour as he pressed forward; and it never for a moment gave way under that strain."