Chiefly women people it: a certain class of limp men; women for the most part: they are sown there.
And put their garden under the magnifying glass of intimacy, what do we behold?
A world not better than the world it curtains, only foolisher.
Her conversations with Lady Dunstane brought her at last to the point of her damped enthusiasm.

She related an incident or two occurring in her career of independence, and they discussed our state of civilization plainly and gravely, save for the laughing peals her phrases occasionally provoked; as when she named the intruders and disturbers of solitarily-faring ladies, 'Cupid's footpads.' Her humour was created to swim on waters where a prescribed and cultivated prudery should pretend to be drowning.
'I was getting an exalted idea of English gentlemen, Emmy.

"Rich and rare were the gems she wore." I was ready to vow that one might traverse the larger island similarly respected.

I praised their chivalry.

I thought it a privilege to live in such a land.