"One sees more with one's mind than one's eyes.

The best sight is inside." "But do you always see the truth ?" said Richard gravely.
"Quite enough.

What is less common than the ordinary world ?" said Ethel.
Richard shook his head, not quite satisfied, but not sure enough that he entered into her meaning to question it.
"I wonder you don't wear spectacles," was the result of his meditation, and it made her laugh by being so inapposite to her own reflections: but the laugh ended in a melancholy look.

"Dear mamma did not like me to use them," she said, in a low voice.
Thus they talked till they arrived at Cocksmoor, where poor Mrs.Taylor, inspirited by better reports of her husband and the hopes for her daughter, was like another woman.

Richard was very careful not to raise false expectations, saying it all depended on Miss May and nurse, and what they thought of her strength and steadiness, but these cautions did not seem capable of damping the hopes of the smooth-haired Lucy, who stood smiling and curtseying.