To be brief, they were very ambitious damsels, aiming at they knew not exactly what, save that it was something so wide that it had not a name, and so high in the air that no one could see it.

They knew assuredly that their circle did not please them.

So, therefore, they were constantly extending and refining it: extending it perhaps for the purpose of refining it.

Their susceptibilities demanded that they should escape from a city circle.
Having no mother, they ruled their father's house and him, and were at least commanders of whatsoever forces they could summon for the task.
It may be seen that they were sentimentalists.

That is to say, they supposed that they enjoyed exclusive possession of the Nice Feelings, and exclusively comprehended the Fine Shades.