Rilla of Ingleside (Anne of Green Gables, #8)

by L.M. Montgomery

But pride—" Susan sighed bitterly—"pride is cold company and that there is no gainsaying."

"Don't you see," said Bruce, looking levelly at Susan, out of his blackly blue eyes, "if he was turned into a good man he would understand how dreadful the things he has done are, and he would feel so terrible about it that he would be more unhappy and miserable than he could ever be in any other way. He would feel just awful—and he would go on feeling like that forever.