Submitting, however, with a good grace to the caution that we had shown to be so necessary, he contented himself with sitting down among us in his lightest spirits and talking as if his one unvarying purpose in life from childhood had been that one which now held possession of him. 
Submitting, however, with a good grace, he sat down in his lightest spirits, talking as if his one unvarying purpose in life from childhood had been the law. 