And we all love you so." "Especially Lady Alexandrina." "That would not have signified, for Frank cannot endure the de Courcys himself." "My dear, it does not matter one straw whom your brother can endure or not endure just at present.

His character is to be formed, and his tastes, and his heart also." "Oh, Mary!--his heart." "Yes, his heart; not the fact of his having a heart.

I think he has a heart; but he himself does not yet understand it." "Oh, Mary! you do not know him." Such conversations were not without danger to poor Mary's comfort.
It came soon to be the case that she looked rather for this sort of sympathy from Beatrice, than for Miss Oriel's pleasant but less piquant gaiety.
So the days of the doctor's absence were passed, and so also the first week after his return.

During this week it was almost daily necessary that the squire should be with him.

The doctor was now the legal holder of Sir Roger's property, and, as such, the holder also of all the mortgages on Mr Gresham's property; and it was natural that they should be much together.