Not merely on Cecily's account; she was led by it to think of the world beyond her horizon, and to conceive dissatisfactions such as had never taken form to her.
Her physical health began to fall off; she had seasons of depression, during which there settled upon her superstitious fears.

Ascetic impulses returned, and by yielding to them she established a new cause of bodily weakness.

And the more she suffered, the more intolerable to her grew the thought of resigning her local importance.

Her pride, whenever irritated, showed itself in ways which exposed her to the ridicule of envious acquaintances.

At length Bartles was surprised with an announcement of what had so long been in her mind; a newspaper paragraph made known, as if with authority, the great and noble work Mrs.Baske was about to undertake.