“handsome,
clever and rich” with “very little to distress or vex her”
“The picture!
How eager he had been about the picture!”
“there was
no doubt of her being in love.”
“would be
loved as one to whom she could be useful”
“no intellectual
superiority to make atonement to herself” with “the endeavour to make a small income go as far as possible”
“a vain woman”
who is “extremely well satisfied with herself”
“You hear
nothing but truth from me”
“How could
she have been so brutal, so cruel to Miss Bates!”
“with insufferable
vanity had she believed herself in the secret of everybody’s feelings”
“It is always
incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage”
“I have none of the usual
inducements of women to marry. Were I to fall in love, indeed, it would be a different thing!”
“the sale
— not quite of human flesh — but of human intellect,”
