Had she interfered she must have seemed to sympathise, and thus the lesson might have suffered in salutariness.
And yet Caron La Boulaye was a man of most excellent exterior, and, when passion had roused him out of his restraint and awkwardness, of most ardent and eloquent address.

The very sombreness that--be it from his mournful garments or from a mind of thoughtful habit--seemed to envelop him was but an additional note of poetry in a personality which struck her now as eminently poetical.

In the seclusion of her own chamber, as she recalled the burning words and the fall of her father's whip upon the young man's pale face, she even permitted herself to sigh.

Had he but been of her own station, he had been such a man as she would have taken pride in being wooed by.

As it was--she halted there and laughed disdainfully, yet with never so faint a note of regret.