Only don't throw your scorn at me for believing what you can't believe.

Talk quietly; avoid those subjects; tell me, if you wish to, what you are doing or think of doing." "You should have spoken like this earlier, Miriam.

It would have spared my memory its most wretched burden." "How ?" "You know quite well that I valued your affection, and that it had no little importance in my life.

Instead of still having my sister, I had only the memory of her anger and injustice, and of my own cursed temper." "I had no influence for good." "Perhaps not in the common sense of the words.

I am not going to talk humbug about a woman's power to make a man angelic; that will do for third-rate novels and plays.