He had been speaking of her cheerfully from the hour of his coming home.

His avoiding her was quite at an end.

He had dined at the Parsonage only the preceding day.
After leaving him to his happier thoughts for some minutes, Fanny, feeling it due to herself, returned to Mr.Crawford, and said, "It is not merely in _temper_ that I consider him as totally unsuited to myself; though, in _that_ respect, I think the difference between us too great, infinitely too great: his spirits often oppress me; but there is something in him which I object to still more.

I must say, cousin, that I cannot approve his character.

I have not thought well of him from the time of the play.