1/10 Chapter 60. "How could you begin ?" said she. "I can comprehend your going on charmingly, when you had once made a beginning; but what could set you off in the first place ?" "I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look, or the words, which laid the foundation. I was in the middle before I knew that I _had_ begun." "My beauty you had early withstood, and as for my manners--my behaviour to _you_ was at least always bordering on the uncivil, and I never spoke to you without rather wishing to give you pain than not. |