He stood the battery unflinchingly.

She altered her tone, and asked, politely and almost respectfully, whether she might see that paper.
Mr.Oldfield gave it her.

She took it, and ran her eye over it; in doing which, she raised it so that she could think behind it unobserved.

She handed it back at last, with the remark that Sir Charles was a gentleman and had done the right thing.
"He has; and you will do the right thing too, will you not ?" "I don't know.

I am just beginning to fall in love with him myself." "Jealousy, madam, not love," said the old lawyer.