It could not therefore be expected to be so inflexible, as with better information it would, no doubt, have been found.

She had a clear and noble spirit; but she had some of her sex's errors.

Her mind sunk under the uniform terrors with which she was assailed, and her health became visibly impaired.
Her firmness being thus far undermined, Grimes, in pursuance of his instructions, took care, in his next interview, to throw out an insinuation that, for his own part, he had never cared for the match, and since she was so averse to it, would be better pleased that it should never take place.

Between one and the other however, he was got into a scrape, and now he supposed he must marry, will he, nill he.

The two squires would infallibly ruin him upon the least appearance of backwardness on his part, as they were accustomed to do every inferior that resisted their will.