"I read the letter. Lucy, life is said to be all disappointment. I was not disappointed. Ere I read, while I read, my heart did more than throb--it trembled fast--every quiver seemed like the pant of an animal athirst, laid down at a well and drinking; and the well proved quite full, gloriously clear"
"Must I, ere I close, render some account of that Freedom and Renovation which I won on the fete-night? Must I tell how I and the two stalwart campanions I brought home from the illumated night bore the test of intimate acquaintance? I tried them the very next day. They had boasted their strength lou"
"There is a perverse mood of the mind which is rather soothed than irritated by misconstruction; and in quarters where we can never be rightly known, we take pleasure, I think, in being consummately ignored. What honest man on being casually taken for a housebreaker, does not feel rather tickled than"
"The world, I soon learned, held a different estimate: and I make no doubt, the world is very right in its view, yet believe also that I am not quite wrong in mine."