Part 7 Chapter 11 Ease and Freedom

LYNMERE, at tea-time, returned from his ride, with a fixed plan of frightening or disgusting the baronet from the alliance; with Eugenia, herself, he imagined the attempt would be vain, for he did not conceive it possible any woman who had eyes could be induced to reject him.Determined, therefore, to indulge, in full, both the natural presumption