Without dreaming for a moment that she designed to encourage his passion for Rose, he yet beheld himself in the light she had cast on him; and, received as her daughter's friend, it seemed to him not so utterly monstrous that he might be her daughter's lover.

A haughty, a grand, or a too familiar manner, would have kept his eyes clearer on his true condition.

Lady Jocelyn spoke to his secret nature, and eclipsed in his mind the outward aspects with which it was warring.
To her he was a gallant young man, a fit companion for Rose, and when she and Sir Franks said, and showed him, that they were glad to know him, his heart swam in a flood of happiness they little suspected.
This was another of the many forms of intoxication to which circumstances subjected the poor lover.

In Fallow field, among impertinent young men, Evan's pride proclaimed him a tailor.

At Beckley Court, acted on by one genuine soul, he forgot it, and felt elate in his manhood.