"Fine understanding"—
The youth smiles up, and with a lowly grace, Bending his lifted eyes—p. 22.
This is very neat:
No peevishness there was—
But a mute gush of hiding tears from one,
Clasped to the core of him who yet shed none.—p. 83.
The heroine is suspected of wishing to have some share in the choice of her own husband, which is thus elegantly expressed:
She had stout notions on the marrying score.—p. 27.
This noble use of the word score is afterwards carefully repeated in speaking of the Prince, her husband—
—no suspicion could have touched him more,
Than that of wanting on the generous score.—p. 48.
But though thus punctilious on the generous score, his Highness had but a bad temper,
And kept no reckoning with his sweets and sours.—p. 47.