The Doctor's Garden Mary had contrived to quiet her lover with considerable propriety of demeanour.

Then came on her the somewhat harder task of quieting herself.

Young ladies, on the whole, are perhaps quite as susceptible of the softer feelings as young gentlemen are.

Now Frank Gresham was handsome, amiable, by no means a fool in intellect, excellent in heart; and he was, moreover, a gentleman, being the son of Mr Gresham of Greshamsbury.

Mary had been, as it were, brought up to love him.
Had aught but good happened to him, she would have cried as for a brother.