But he saw the admonition was superfluous.

Eugenia was prepared to be gracious as only Eugenia could be.

Felix knew no keener pleasure than to be able to admire his sister unrestrictedly; for if the opportunity was frequent, it was not inveterate.

When she desired to please she was to him, as to every one else, the most charming woman in the world.

Then he forgot that she was ever anything else; that she was sometimes hard and perverse; that he was occasionally afraid of her.