How did you excite their displeasure ?" "I don't know.

I seldom spoke to them--they were nothing to me.

I considered them only as something to be glanced at from a distance; their dresses and faces were often pleasing enough to the eye: but I could not understand their conversation, nor even read their countenances.

When I caught snatches of what they said, I could never make much of it; and the play of their lips and eyes did not help me at all." "That was your fault, not theirs.

There are sensible, as well as handsome women in X----; women it is worth any man's while to talk to, and with whom I can talk with pleasure: but you had and have no pleasant address; there is nothing in you to induce a woman to be affable.