Now had n't you noticed that ?" "I had noticed that she was much changed," Mr.Wentworth declared, in a tone whose unexpressive, unimpassioned quality appeared to Felix to reveal a profundity of opposition.

"It may be that she is only becoming what you call a charming woman." "Gertrude, at heart, is so earnest, so true," said Charlotte, very softly, fastening her eyes upon her father.
"I delight to hear you praise her!" cried Felix.
"She has a very peculiar temperament," said Mr.Wentworth.
"Eh, even that is praise!" Felix rejoined.

"I know I am not the man you might have looked for.

I have no position and no fortune; I can give Gertrude no place in the world.

A place in the world--that 's what she ought to have; that would bring her out." "A place to do her duty!" remarked Mr.Wentworth.
"Ah, how charmingly she does it--her duty!" Felix exclaimed, with a radiant face.