There was a sort of attraction in this repulsion.

There was an excitement in his ambition to impress this impartial and judicial mind with the truth and importance of the glorious and regenerating views he had embraced.

His self-esteem was pleased at the thought that he should yet conquer this cool and open-minded girl by the force of his own intelligence.

He admired her intellectual self-possession all the more that it was a quality which he lacked.

Before that afternoon ride was over, he was convinced that he sat by the supreme woman of all he had ever known.