Such hatred under such circumstances was almost pardonable.

But George Vavasor, when he hated, was apt to follow up his hatred with injury.

He could not violently dislike a man and yet not wish to do him any harm.

At present, as he sat lounging in his chair, he thought that he would like to marry his cousin Alice; but he was quite sure that he would like to be the means of putting a stop to the proposed marriage between Alice and John Grey.
Kate had been very false to her friend, and had sent up to her brother the very letter which Alice had written to her after that meeting in Queen Anne Street which was described in the last chapter,--or rather a portion of it, for with the reserve common to women she had kept back the other half.

Alice had declared to herself that she would be sure of her cousin's sympathy, and had written out all her heart on the matter, as was her wont when writing to Kate.
"But you must understand," she wrote, "that all that I said to him went with him for nothing.