He admires Charlotte," she repeated.
"That's capital!" said Felix laughingly, and dipping his oars.

I cannot say exactly to which member of Gertrude's phrase he alluded; but he dipped his oars again, and they kept floating about.
Neither Felix nor his sister, on that day, was present at Mr.
Wentworth's at the evening repast.

The two occupants of the chalet dined together, and the young man informed his companion that his marriage was now an assured fact.

Eugenia congratulated him, and replied that if he were as reasonable a husband as he had been, on the whole, a brother, his wife would have nothing to complain of.
Felix looked at her a moment, smiling.

"I hope," he said, "not to be thrown back on my reason." "It is very true," Eugenia rejoined, "that one's reason is dismally flat.