There, too, unjust contempt is like that "ferret of the woods," which runs from hand to hand and which always returns to its point of setting out.

All the scornful are themselves scorned by some one--a merited punishment, which does not correct our pride any more than the other punishments which abound in life cure our other faults.

Lydia's persecutors were themselves the objects of outrages practised by their comrades born in England, on account of certain peculiarities in their language and for the nasal quality of their voices.

The drama was limited, as we can imagine, to a series of insignificant episodes and of which the superintendents only surprised a demi-echo.
Children nurse passions as strong as ours, but so much interrupted by playfulness that it is impossible to measure their exact strength.
Lydia's 'amour propre' was wounded in an incurable manner by that revelation of her own peculiarity.

Certain incidents of her American life recurred to her, which she comprehended more clearly.