o fear him as his master, in his
youthful manhood received every new indulgence with gratitude, and at
length loved him as a father--nor had Dorriforth as yet shaken off
similar sensations.

Mr. Sandford perfectly knew how to influence the sentiments and
sensations of all human kind, but yet he had the forbearance not to
"draw all hearts towards him." There were some whose hatred he thought
not unworthy of his pious labours; and in that pursuit he was more rapid
in his success than even in procuring esteem. It was an enterprise in
which he succeeded with Miss Milner even beyond his most sanguine wish.

She had been educated at an English boarding school, and had no idea of
the superior and subordinate state of characters in a foreign
seminary--besides, as a woman, she was privileged to say any thing she
pleased; and as a beautiful woman, she had a right to expect that
whatever she pleased to say, should be admired.

Sandford knew the hearts of women, as well as those of men, though he
had passed little of his time in their society--he saw Miss Milner's
heart at the first view of her person; and beholding in that little
circumference a weight of folly that he wished to eradicate, he began to
toil in the vineyard, eagerly courting her detestation of him, in the
hope he could also make her abominate herself. In the mortifications of
slight he was expert; and being a man of talents, whom all companies,
especially her friends, respected, he did not begin by wasting that
reverence so highly valued upon ineffectual remonstrances, of which he
could foresee the reception, but wakened her attention by his neglect of
her. He spoke of her in her presence as of an indifferent person,
sometimes forgetting even to name her when the subject required it; then
would ask her pardon, and say that he "Really did not recollect her,"
with such seeming sorrow for his fault, that she could not think the
offence intended, and of course felt the affront more acutely.

While, with every other person she was the principle, the cause upon
whom a whole party depended for conversation, cards, musick, or dancing,
with Mr. Sandford she found that she was of no importance. Sometimes she
tried to consider this disregard of her as merely the effect of
ill-breeding; but he was not an ill-bred man: he was a gentleman by
birth, and one who had kept the best company--a man of sense and
learning. "And such a man slights me without knowing it," she said--for