He married Mrs.Kent's maid, an ugly, thick-lipped girl, who had hitherto been his especial aversion.

He could not though, entirely erase Esther's image from his heart--always feeling a tendency to choke, when he heard her voice in meeting.
Esther told her mother of the offer she had had, and Phillis quite agreed with her, in thinking Robert was crazy.

She charged "Esther to know when she was well off, and not to bring trouble upon herself by getting married, or any such foolishness as that.".