She says she is nothing to me, even as I am nothing to her.

I am of course nothing to her, but she is mistaken in thinking she is nothing to me.

I entertain the highest regard and admiration for her, being convinced that I might search the whole world in vain for a nature more heroic and devoted." "And for my part," said Belle, with a sob, "a more quiet, agreeable partner in a place like this I would not wish to have; it is true he has strange ways, and frequently puts words into my mouth very difficult to utter; but--but--" and here she buried her face once more in her hands.
"Well," said the postillion, "I have been mistaken about you; that is, not altogether, but in part.

You are not rich folks, it seems, but you are not common people, and that I could have sworn.

What I call a shame is, that some people I have known are not in your place and you in theirs,--you with their estates and borough interest, they in this dingle with these carts and animals; but there is no help for these things.