Because his body had travelled many hundreds of miles over land and sea, he believed that his mind had opened in proportion to the distance covered.

He knew that men and women of action pick up knowledge of the world without pausing on their busy way; but he did not know that it is to the silent, the sorrowful, and the solitary--to those who have time to listen--that God reveals the secrets of life.
She said to herself that everything about him was dear to her; his grey eyes, that never saw below the surface of things; his thin, brown face; his youthful affectation; the strange, new growth which shaded his long upper lip, and softened the plainness of the Crewys physiognomy, which Peter would not have bartered for the handsomest set of Greek features ever imagined by a sculptor.

Even for his faults Lady Mary had a tender toleration; for Peter would not have been Peter without them.
"It would not be fair on Sarah, knowing all London--worth knowing--as she does," said Peter with pardonable exaggeration, "to rob her of the season altogether.

We shall go up regularly, every year, if--if she marries me.

Of that I am determined, and so"-- incidentally--"is she." "Nothing could be nicer," said Lady Mary, heartily enough to satisfy even Peter.
He spoke with more warmth and naturalness.