CHAPTER XIV.
CONVERSATION BETWEEN GODOLPHIN AND CONSTANCE .-- THE COUNTRY LINE AND THE TOWN LINE.
And Godolphin came on the appointed Wednesday.

He was animated that day even to brilliancy.

Lady Erpingham thought him the most charming of men; and even Constance forgot that he was no match for herself.

Gifted and cultivated as she was, it was not without delight that she listened to his glowing descriptions of scenery, and to his playful yet somewhat melancholy strain of irony upon men and their pursuits.

The peculiar features of her mind made her, indeed, like the latter more than she could appreciate the former; for in her nature there was more bitterness than sentiment.