What does it matter?
I should have left the flies and wasps to worry a corpse.

And then-good-bye gentility! I should have worked for my bread.

I had thoughts of America.

I fancy I can write; and Americans, one hears, are gentle to women.' 'Ah, Tony! there's the looking back.

And, of all women, you!' 'Or else, dear-well, perhaps once on foreign soil, in a different air, I might--might have looked back, and seen my whole self, not shattered, as I feel it now, and come home again compassionate to the poor persecuted animal to defend her.