Looking back at what he had done that day, he was almost disposed to be contented with it.

The lady's too evident hostility was, of course, to be deprecated;--but then he had expected it.

As Robert Bolton had explained to him very clearly, it was almost impossible that he should, at the first, be regarded by her with favourable eyes.

But he thought that the brother had been quite as favourable to him as he could have expected, and the ice was broken.

The Bolton family generally would know what he was about.