And I think that in truth he was barely conscious of them; that he depended on them very little, if at all; that there was nothing of personal vanity in his composition.

He had never indulged in any hope that Lady Laura would accept him because he was a handsome man.
"After all that climbing," he said, "will you not sit down for a moment ?" As he spoke to her she looked at him and told herself that he was as handsome as a god.

"Do sit down for one moment," he said.
"I have something that I desire to say to you, and to say it here." "I will," she said; "but I also have something to tell you, and will say it while I am yet standing.

Yesterday I accepted an offer of marriage from Mr.Kennedy." "Then I am too late," said Phineas, and putting his hands into the pockets of his coat, he turned his back upon her, and walked away across the mountain.
What a fool he had been to let her know his secret when her knowledge of it could be of no service to him,--when her knowledge of it could only make him appear foolish in her eyes! But for his life he could not have kept his secret to himself.

Nor now could he bring himself to utter a word of even decent civility.