"'Never mind about the lords and ladies. Would you like to take up any course of study - history, for example?' 'Sometimes I feel I don't want to know anything more about it than I know already.' 'Why not?' 'Because what's the use of learning that I am one of a long row only - finding out that there "
"Was once lost always lost really true of chastity? she would ask herself. She might prove it false if she could veil bygones. The recuperative power which pervaded organic nature was surely not denied to maidenhood alone."
"In the ill-judged execution of the well-judged plan of things the call seldom produces the comer, the man to love rarely coincides with the hour for loving. Nature does not often say ''See!'' to her poor creature at a time when seeing can lead to happy doing, or reply ''Here!'' to a body's cry of ''"