text:  There he was! to her idea the embodied evil genius of her family! the sullen apostate from the finer part of love--the victim of satiety (as rumour said ) the selfish contemner of women's better feelings!--indifferent to all but person in his election of a wife; willing to unite himself with one whose heart and mind were stranger to him on bare report of her health and beauty and some slight recollections of her childhood! Seeing her stop and even totter he advanced a few steps; but she with the instinctive recoil and antipathy of some feeble creature from its natural enemy retreated at his first movement--and shocked by this betrayed repugnance he again stood irresolute