"But I feel dull, and cannot help it." "You should have gone with me to laugh with Matthews.

He would have shaken all these cobwebs from your brain.

Come! it is not yet too late." But the rebel spirit was in her heart; and to have acceded to he husband's wishes would have been to submit herself to control.
"You must excuse me," she replied.

"I feel as if home were the better place for me to-night." An impatient answer was on her tongue; but she checked its utterance, and spoke from a better spirit.
Not even as a lover had Hartley shown more considerate tenderness than marked all his conduct toward Irene this evening.

His mind was in a clear-seeing region, and his feelings tranquil.