She was most forcibly struck.

The truth of this representation there was no denying.

She felt it at her heart.

How could she have been so brutal, so cruel to Miss Bates! How could she have exposed herself to such ill opinion in any one she valued! And how suffer him to leave her without saying one word of gratitude, of concurrence, of common kindness! Time did not compose her.

As she reflected more, she seemed but to feel it more.