When a man talks to me about another man, I can generally tell whether I should like him or not--particularly if I know the man well who is giving the description; but it is quite different when a woman is the describer." "You mean that you won't take my word ?" "We see with different eyes in such matters.

I have no doubt your cousin is a worthy man--and as prosperous a gentleman as the Thane of Cawdor in his prosperous days;--but probably if he and I came together we shouldn't have a word to say to each other." Clara almost hated Captain Aylmer for speaking as he did, and yet she knew that it was true.

Will Belton was not an educated man, and were they two to meet in her presence,--the captain and the farmer,--she felt that she might have to blush for her cousin.

But yet he was the better man of the two.

She knew that he was the better man of the two, though she knew also that she could not love him as she loved the other.
Then they changed the subject of their conversation, and discussed Mrs.Winterfield, as they had often done before.