Any woman sinking her shaft deep enough, will at last reach a fathomless spring of sensibility in thy breast, Crimsworth." I felt the blood stir about my heart and rise warm to my cheek.
"Some women might, monsieur." "Is Mdlle.

Reuter of the number?
Come, speak frankly, mon fils; elle est encore jeune, plus agee que toi peut-etre, mais juste asset pour unir la tendresse d'une petite maman a l'amour d'une epouse devouee; n'est-ce pas que cela t'irait superieurement ?" "No, monsieur; I should like my wife to be my wife, and not half my mother." "She is then a little too old for you ?" "No, monsieur, not a day too old if she suited me in other things." "In what does she not suit you, William?
She is personally agreeable, is she not ?" "Very; her hair and complexion are just what I admire; and her turn of form, though quite Belgian, is full of grace." "Bravo! and her face?
her features?
How do you like them ?" "A little harsh, especially her mouth." "Ah, yes! her mouth," said M.Pelet, and he chuckled inwardly.

"There is character about her mouth--firmness--but she has a very pleasant smile; don't you think so ?" "Rather crafty." "True, but that expression of craft is owing to her eyebrows; have you remarked her eyebrows ?" I answered that I had not.
"You have not seen her looking down then ?" said he.
"No." "It is a treat, notwithstanding.

Observe her when she has some knitting, or some other woman's work in hand, and sits the image of peace, calmly intent on her needles and her silk, some discussion meantime going on around her, in the course of which peculiarities of character are being developed, or important interests canvassed; she takes no part in it; her humble, feminine mind is wholly with her knitting; none of her features move; she neither presumes to smile approval, nor frown disapprobation; her little hands assiduously ply their unpretending task; if she can only get this purse finished, or this bonnet-grec completed, it is enough for her.

If gentlemen approach her chair, a deeper quiescence, a meeker modesty settles on her features, and clothes her general mien; observe then her eyebrows, et dites-moi s'il n'y a pas du chat dans l'un et du renard dans l'autre." "I will take careful notice the first opportunity," said I.
"And then," continued M.Pelet, "the eyelid will flicker, the light-coloured lashes be lifted a second, and a blue eye, glancing out from under the screen, will take its brief, sly, searching survey, and retreat again." I smiled, and so did Pelet, and after a few minutes' silence, I asked: "Will she ever marry, do you think ?" "Marry! Will birds pair?
Of course it is both her intention and resolution to marry when she finds a suitable match, and no one is better aware than herself of the sort of impression she is capable of producing; no one likes better to captivate in a quiet way.