I tried to be civil to him this evening.

I shall never try again." With which Miss Rose closed her lips, and relapsed into her book, supremely indifferent to her sister's heightened colour and flashing eyes.

She turned away in silence, and fifteen minutes after, Rose got up and left the room, without saving good-night to any one.
Rose kept her word.

From that evening she was never civil to the Scotch baronet, and took every occasion to snub him.

But her incivility was as completely thrown away as her charms had been.