"I cannot explain, but you will see." She then gave Mrs.
Triplet peremptory orders not to let her charge rise from the bed until the preconcerted signal.
Mrs.Vane was, in fact, so exhausted by all she had gone through that she was in no condition to resist.

She cast a look of childlike confidence upon her rival, and then closed her eyes, and tried not to tremble all over and listen like a frightened hare.
***** It is one great characteristic of genius to do great things with little things.

Paxton could see that so small a matter as a greenhouse could be dilated into a crystal palace, and with two common materials--glass and iron--he raised the palace of the genii; the brightest idea and the noblest ornament added to Europe in this century--the koh-i-noor of the west.

Livy's definition of Archimedes goes on the same ground.
***** Peg Woffington was a genius in her way.

On entering Triplet's studio her eye fell upon three trifles--Mrs.Vane's hood and mantle, the back of an old letter, and Mr.Triplet.