If she would only have done the same, then there would have been an equality.

Then he could have seized her in his arms and sworn that never, never, never would he care for any one but her.
In truth he saw everything as it was only too truly.

Though she might choose to marry him if he pressed his request, she would never subject herself to him as he would have the girl do whom he loved.
She was his superior, and in every word uttered between them showed that it was so.

But yet how beautiful she was;--how much more beautiful than any other thing he had ever seen! He sat on one of the high seats behind Sir Timothy Beeswax and Sir Orlando Drought, listening, or pretending to listen, to the speeches of three or four gentlemen respecting sugar, thinking of all this till half-past seven;--and then he went to dine with the proud consciousness of having done his duty.

The forms and methods of the House were, he flattered himself, soaking into him gradually,--as his father had desired.