She is sinking into melancholia." "But, my dear girl, the chapel!" "She only pretends to think of it.

Miriam is becoming a hypocrite I have noted several little signs of it since Cecily came.

She poses--and in wretchedness.

Please to recollect that her age is four-and-twenty." "I do so frequently, and marvel at human nature." "I do so, and without marvelling at all, for I see human nature justifying itself.

I'll tell you what I am going to do, I shall propose to her to begin and read Dante." "The 'Inferno.' Why, yes." "And I shall craftily introduce to her attention one or two wicked and worldly little books, such as, 'The Improvisatore,' and the 'Golden Treasury,' and so on.