He had forgiven a blow! Silly as the delusion might be, it clothed her in whimsical attractiveness.
It was a beauty in her to dwell so firmly upon moral quality.

Overthrown and stunned as he was, and reduced to helplessness by her brief and positive replies, Herbert was obliged to admire the singular young lady, who spoke, without much shyness, of her incongruous, destined mate though his admiration had an edge cutting like irony.

While in the turn for candour, she ought to have told him, that previous to her decision she had weighed the case of the diverse claims of himself and Tinman, and resolved them according to her predilection for the peaceful residence of her father and herself in England.

This she had done a little regretfully, because of the natural sympathy of the young girl for the younger man.

But the younger man had seemed to her seriously-straightforward mind too light and airy in his wooing, like one of her waltzing officers--very well so long as she stepped the measure with him, and not forcible enough to take her off her feet.