The prayers I soon learnt to laugh to scorn.

The floggings, after they were over, crowned me with delicious sensations of martyrdom.

Even while the sting lasted I could say, it's for Heriot and Julia! and it gave me a wonderful penetration into--the mournful ecstasy of love.
Julia was sent away to a relative by the sea-side, because, one of the housemaids told me, she could not bear to hear of my being beaten.

Mr.
Rippenger summoned me to his private room to bid me inform him whether I had other relatives besides my father, such as grandfather, grandmother, uncles, or aunts, or a mother.

I dare say Julia would have led me to break my word to my father by speaking of old Riversley, a place I half longed for since my father had grown so distant and dim to me; but confession to Mr.Rippenger seemed, as he said of Heriot's behaviour to him, a gross breach of trust to my father; so I refused steadily to answer, and suffered the consequences now on my dear father's behalf.