"And ought it not," reflected Catherine, "toendear it to her husband?

"There certainly are circumstances," said Willoughby, "which might greatlyendear it to me; but this place will always have one claim of my affection, which no other can possibly share."

Bingley wasendeared to Darcy by the easiness, openness, and ductility of his temper, though no disposition could offer a greater contrast to his own, and though with his own he never appeared dissatisfied.

But since then the little room had beenendeared and consecrated by years of happy childhood dreams and maiden visions.

Itendeared him to her strangely that he should be sometimes wrong.

His name and natureendeared the Spanish name and nature to me, so that they were always my romance, and to this day I cannot meet a Spanish man without clothing him in something of the honor and worship I lavished upon Cervantes when I was a child.

To say the truth, Blifil had greatly gained his master's affections; partly by the profound respect he always showed his person, but much more by the decent reverence with which he received his doctrine; for he had got by heart, and frequently repeated, his phrases, and maintained all his master's religious principles with a zeal which was surprizing in one so young, and which greatlyendeared him to the worthy preceptor.

The gentle manners and beauty of the cottagers greatlyendeared them to me; when they were unhappy, I felt depressed; when they rejoiced, I sympathized in their joys.

In this world the penalty is less equal than could be wished; but without presuming to look forward to a juster appointment hereafter, we may fairly consider a man of sense, like Henry Crawford, to be providing for himself no small portion of vexation and regret: vexation that must rise sometimes to self-reproach, and regret to wretchedness, in having so requited hospitality, so injured family peace, so forfeited his best, most estimable, andendeared acquaintance, and so lost the woman whom he had rationally as well as passionately loved.

How fair and precious to that mother was that sleeping child's face,endeared by the memory of a thousand dangers!