She had forgiven him his sermon.

She had forgiven him his Low Church tendencies, his Sabbath-schools, and puritanical observances.

She had forgiven his pharisaical arrogance, and even his greasy face and oily, vulgar manners.

Having agreed to overlook such offences as these, why should she not in time be taught to regard Mr.
Slope as a suitor?
And as to him, it must also be affirmed that he was hitherto equally innocent of the crime imputed to him.

How it had come to pass that a man whose eyes were generally so widely open to everything around him had not perceived that this young widow was rich as well as beautiful, cannot probably now be explained.