Her ascent had not come warmly from her heart, but burdened with a sigh.

Mr.Dexter felt that though she was his, she had not been fairly won.

The conviction troubled him.
"I will release her," he said, in a sudden glow of generous enthusiasm.

But Mr.Dexter had not the nobility for such a step.

He was too selfish a man to relinquish the prize.
"I will woo and win her still." This was to him a more satisfactory conclusion.