Shameful! That charming, interesting girl! And yet, and yet, there was a look in her face more like some great anxiety than disappointment.

If she had had a disappointment, I do not think she would have let any one see it.

Those Deyncourts are all too proud to show their feelings, though they have got them, too, somewhere.

Perhaps, on the whole, considering how excessively disagreeable and scriptural Charles can be, and what unexpected turns he can give to things, I had better say nothing to him at present." The moment Lady Mary had left the house, Ruth hurried to her uncle's study.

He was not there.