Whereat she said, "Will a thousand instances change the principle ?" When the brain, and especially the fine brain of a woman, first begins to act for itself, the work is of heavy labour; she finds herself plunging abroad on infinite seas, and runs speedily into the anchorage of dogmas, obfuscatory saws, and what she calls principles.

Here she is safe; but if her thinking was not originally the mere action of lively blood upon that battery of intelligence, she will by-and-by reflect that it is not well for a live thing to be tied to a dead, and that long clinging to safety confesses too much.

Merthyr waited for Georgians patiently.

On all other points they were heart-in-heart.

It was her pride to say that she loved him with no sense of jealousy, and prayed that he might find a woman, in plain words, worthy of him.