I must hope, however, that time, proving him (as I firmly believe it will) to deserve you by his steady affection, will give him his reward.

I cannot suppose that you have not the _wish_ to love him--the natural wish of gratitude.

You must have some feeling of that sort.

You must be sorry for your own indifference." "We are so totally unlike," said Fanny, avoiding a direct answer, "we are so very, very different in all our inclinations and ways, that I consider it as quite impossible we should ever be tolerably happy together, even if I _could_ like him.

There never were two people more dissimilar.