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Corand opportunity Manston was very religious now It is coule one which will land, let him be once love-sick, wear prayer-books and becoument that his sweetheart can be seen from his pew

Manston introduced into hisflattery, everywhere pervasive, yet, too, so transitory and intangible, that, as in the case of the poet Wordsworth and the Wandering Voice, though she felt it present, she could never find it As a foil to heighten its effect, he occasionally spoke philosophically of the evanescence of female beauty--the worthlessness of mere appearance

'Handsome is that handsome does' he considered a proverb which should be written on the looking-glass of every woman in the land

'Your form, your motions, your heart have won me,' he said, in a tone of playful sadness 'They are beautiful But I see these things, and it co to nothing as I look Poor eyes, poor lories be in twenty years?" I say

"Where will all of her be in a hundred?" Then I think it is cruel that you should bloom a day, and fade for ever and ever It seems hard and sad that you will die as ordinarily as I, and be buried; be food for roots and worrow up a rass and an ivy leaf Then, Miss Graye, when I see you are a Lovely Nothing, I pity you, and the love I feel then is better and sounder, larger and ain an ardent flash of his handsome eyes

It was by this route that he ventured on an indirect declaration and offer of his hand

She implied in the sah to accept it

An actual refusal washi hiiven the parish, should they know of her refusal, a chance of sneering at hi than before--he went home to the Old House, and walked indecisively up and down his back-yard

Turning aside, he leant his ar in the corner, and looked into it The reflection froreenish shades of Correggio's nudes Staves of sunlight slanted down through the still pool, lighting it up onderful distinctness