Placing her on a lower pedestal in her self-esteem, the philosophy of youth revived her; and if the abatement of her personal pride was dispiriting, she began to see an advantage in getting inward eyes.
'It's infinitely better I should know it, Emmy--I'm a reptile! Pleasure here, pleasure there, I'm always thinking of pleasure.

I shall give up thinking and take to drifting.

Neither of us can do more than open purses; and mine's lean.

If the old Crossways had no tenant, it would be a purse all mouth.

And charity is haunted, like everything we do.