His very merits were objectionable.
She tried with exquisite art to draw him into some revealment as to his family and antecedents: but he evaded every attempt of that kind.

It was too evident that he was a self-made man, whose intellect and good looks were his only fortune.

It was criminal in Maulevrier to have brought such a person to Fellside.

Her ladyship began to think seriously of sending the two girls to St.Bees or Tynemouth for change of air, in charge of Fraeulein.

But any sudden proceeding of that kind would inevitably awaken Lesbia's suspicions; and there is nothing so fatal to a woman's peace as this idea of danger.