He knew nothing of the inner world of worlds which governs the world.
She doubted whether he could have told her who composed the existing cabinet, or have given the name of a single bishop beyond the see in which his own parish was situated.

But Captain Aylmer knew everybody, and had read everything, and understood, as though by instinct, all the movements of the world in which he lived.
But what mattered any such comparison?
Even though she should be able to prove to herself beyond the shadow of a doubt that her cousin Will was of the two the fitter to be loved,--the one more worthy of her heart,--no such proof could alter her position.

Love does not go by worth.

She did not love her cousin as she must love any man to whom she could give her hand,--and, alas! she did love that other man.
On this night I doubt whether Belton did slumber with that solidity of repose which was usual to him.

At any rate, before he came down in the morning he had found time for sufficient thought, and had brought himself to a resolution.