She might have closely counselled, wound in and out with his ideas.

Sensible of capacity, she confessed to the having been morally subdued, physically as well; swept onward; and she was arrested now by an accident, like a waif of the river-floods by the dip of a branch.

Time that it should be! But was not Mr.Durance, inveighing against the favoured system for the education of women, right when he declared them to be unfitted to speak an opinion on any matter external to the household or in a crisis of the household?
She had not agreed with him: he presented stinging sentences, which irritated more than they enlightened.

Now it seemed to her, that the model women of men make pleasant slaves, not true mates: they lack the worldly training to know themselves or take a grasp of circumstances.
There is an exotic fostering of the senses for women, not the strengthening breath of vital common air.

If good fortune is with them, all may go well: the stake of their fates is upon the perpetual smooth flow of good fortune.