Such a stroke was her turning Catholic; such a stroke would be her some day making her courtesy to a disappointed world as Princess Casamassima, married at midnight, in her bonnet.

She might do--she may do--something that would make even more starers! I 'm prepared for anything." "You mean that she might elope with your sculptor, eh ?" "I 'm prepared for anything!" "Do you mean that he 's ready ?" "Do you think that she is ?" "They 're a precious pair! I think this.

You by no means exhaust the subject when you say that Christina is dramatic.

It 's my belief that in the course of her life she will do a certain number of things from pure disinterested passion.

She 's immeasurably proud, and if that is often a fault in a virtuous person, it may be a merit in a vicious one.