...compliments, made her less disposed to relish the comparative indifference of her husband, who, though he loved her as much as it was in his nature to love anything, seldom showed his affection by eulogising her charms after the manner of continental admirers....

...next at power; so that between money and ambition, he had left the mind of his daughter neglected. He loved her as much as it was in his nature to love anything earthly :—next to himself, and saving that self, he loved only her. But even she formed...

...with an anxious and troubled glance. The Countess was right in imagining that he loved the young Earl as much as it was in his nature to love any one. " Thank goodness he's gone !" exclaimed Amy, as the door closed. An ejaculation which the proud Countess...

...not only all persons, but all circumstances, were to bend to his will. He loved his second daughter as much as it was in his nature to love any one; not that his affection sprang from the amiable qualities she really possessed, but he loved her because...

...hand, and being pretty well known to a certain set, she really was much attached to Benschoten, and he loved her as much as it was in his nature to love any one but himself. Without much reputation for cleverness, it was nevertheless she and she only who discovered...

...hand , and being pretty well known to a certain set, she really was much attached to Benschoten , and he loved her as much as it was in his nature to love any one but himself. Without much reputation for cleverness, it was nevertheless she and she only who discovered...

...hand , and being pretty well known to a certain set, she really was much attached to Benschoten, and he loved her as much as it was in his nature to love any one but himself. Without much reputation for cleverness, it was nevertheless she and she only who discovered...

...exemplary husband ; most attentive to his wife, who was becomingly deferential to him ; and he loved Mary as much as it was in his nature to love any one. Such were the persons to whom Mary was at her tender age consigned ; and in many respects more fitting...

...that, unless some great piece of good fortune fell to his lot, Audrey would have to be given up. And he loved her as much as it was in his nature to love any one, and knew he should never care half so much for any one else. He certainly would never care half so...

...irrational in 1813, and closed his days in an asylum. The younger nephew, Tudor, whom he had loved as much as it was in his nature to love any one, and who was to be the representative of his race, fell into a hopeless consumption the next year, and,...