Now, as she took his arm to pass into the garden, he felt that she desired, that she proposed, to please, and this situation made him very happy.

Eugenia would please.
The tall gentleman came to meet her, looking very rigid and grave.

But it was a rigidity that had no illiberal meaning.

Mr.Wentworth's manner was pregnant, on the contrary, with a sense of grand responsibility, of the solemnity of the occasion, of its being difficult to show sufficient deference to a lady at once so distinguished and so unhappy.

Felix had observed on the day before his characteristic pallor; and now he perceived that there was something almost cadaverous in his uncle's high-featured white face.