"We will deal with the qualities that already he displays." And Sir John enumerated them.
"But this is no more than your judgment of him--no more than what you think him." "'Tis what all the world thinks him." "But I shall not marry a man for what others think of him, but for what I think of him myself.

And in my view you cruelly malign him.

I discover no such qualities in Sir Oliver." "'Tis that you should be spared such a discovery that I am beseeching you not to wed him." "Yet unless I wed him I shall never make such a discovery; and until I make it I shall ever continue to love him and to desire to wed him.

Is all my life to be spent so ?" She laughed outright, and came to stand beside him.

She put an arm about his neck as she might have put it about the neck of her father, as she had been in the habit of doing any day in these past ten years--and thereby made him feel himself to have reached an unconscionable age.