She attracted him more than he liked.

How little of permanent happiness could belong to a couple who were only brought together because their passions were stronger than their virtue.

Every moment had its pleasure and its hope.

It taught me to hope, as I had scarcely ever allowed myself to hope before.

In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided between the sexes.

Thus much indeed he was obliged to acknowledge - that he had been constant unconsciously, nay unintentionally; that he had meant to forget her, and believed it to be done. He had imagined himself indifferent, when he had only been angry; and he had been unjust to her merits, because he had been a sufferer from them.

And to all this she must yet add something more substantial, in the improvement of her mind by extensive reading.