"Why should he pretend to condemn the very place which most men find the fittest for all their energies?
Were I a man, no earthly consideration should induce me to live elsewhere.

It is odd how we differ in all things.

However brilliant might be his own light, he would be contented to hide it under a bushel!" And at last she recurred to that matter as to which she had been so anxious when she first opened her lover's letter.

It will be remembered how assured she had expressed herself that Mr Grey would not condescend to object to her travelling with her cousin.

He had not so condescended.