"If it is a question of yielding to a weakness, of resenting an injury, I am afraid I am a very common man." "My dearest friend," cried Felix, "this is not an injury; it 's a benefit--a great service! You will like it extremely.

Only it 's so delicate!" And, in the dim light, he continued to smile intensely.

"You know I take a great interest in my cousins--in Charlotte and Gertrude Wentworth.

That 's very evident from my having traveled some five thousand miles to see them." Mr.Brand said nothing and Felix proceeded.
"Coming into their society as a perfect stranger I received of course a great many new impressions, and my impressions had a great freshness, a great keenness.

Do you know what I mean ?" "I am not sure that I do; but I should like you to continue." "I think my impressions have always a good deal of freshness," said Mr.
Brand's entertainer; "but on this occasion it was perhaps particularly natural that--coming in, as I say, from outside--I should be struck with things that passed unnoticed among yourselves.