She wanted to hug the remembrance of her great joy of the morning, and the knowledge that to-morrow, Sunday, after lunch, would bring her a like pleasure.

And for the time being there was the delight of thinking over what he had said, the subtlety of his gift, and the manner of its giving.
Nothing so goes to the head of a woman of refined sensibilities as the intoxicating flattery of thought-out action in a man, when it is to lay homage at her feet, and the man is a grave and serious person, who is no worshiper of women.
Ethelrida trod on air, and looked unusually sweet and gracious.
And Francis Markrute watched her quietly, with great tenderness in his heart, and not the faintest misgiving.

"Slow and sure" was his motto, and thus he drew always the current of success and contentment.
His only crumpled roseleaf was the face of his niece, which rather haunted him.

There seemed no improvement in the relations of the pair, in spite of Zara having had ample cause to feel jealous about Lady Highford since their arrival.

Elinka, too, had had strange and unreasonable turns in her nature, that is what had made her so attractive.