cried Lucy, as soon as they were by themselves, “I come to talk to you of my happiness. Could anything be so flattering as Mrs. Ferrars's way of treating me yesterday? So exceeding affable as she was! — You know how I dreaded the thoughts of seeing her; — but the very moment I was introduced, there was such an affability in her behaviour as really should seem to say, she had quite took a fancy to me. Now was not it so? — You saw it all; and was not you quite struck with it?”

“She was certainly very civil to you.”

“Civil! — Did you see nothing but only civility? — I saw a vast deal more.

Such kindness as fell to the share of nobody but me! — No pride, no hauteur, and your sister just the same —