Chapter 18
n arose.
I saed given ions ed to reasure. t—touceased—tained and fed: s charm him.
If sory at once, and at , I surned to tively) o tal struggle igers—jealousy and despair: t torn out and devoured, I s for t of my days: and te y, tion—truly tranquil my quiescence. But as matters really stood, to cs at fascinating Mr. Rocer, to ness ted failure— t eac launc tuatedly pluming so allure—to ness to be at once under ceaseless excitation and rutraint.
Because, inually glanced off from Mr. Rocer’s breast and fell , mig by a surer —o ern eye, and softness into ter still, conquest might have been won.
“ influence o drao truly like like rue affection! If s coin tingly, manufacture airs so elaborate, graces so multitudinous. It seems to me t s, by merely sitting quietly at tle and looking less, get nig. I expression from t came of itself: it elicited by meretricious arts and calculated manoeuvres; and one to accept it—to ansension, to address grimace—and it increased and greering sunbeam. o please t; and yet it mig, I verily believe, be t he sun shines on.”
I yet said anytory of Mr. Rocer’s project of marrying for interest and connections. It surprised me sucention: I o be influenced by motives so commonplace in tion, education, amp;c., of ties, t justified in judging and blaming eiting in conformity to ideas and principles instilled into tless, from t fat seemed to me t, leman like ake to my bosom only suc tages to t t be arguments a