Even as I am--even here and in this garb--I am above convention.

Convenances do not trouble me or hamper me.

That, at least, I have won by what I have gone through, even if it had never come to me through any other way.

Let me stay." She said the last words, in spite of all her pride, appealingly.

But still, there was a note of high pride in all this--in all she said and did, in her attitude and movement, in the tones of her voice, in the loftiness of her carriage and the steadfast look of her open, starlit eyes.