Essential immediate help was to be given besides the noble benevolence of mind.

Novel ideas of manliness and the world's need for it were printed on her understanding.

For what could women do in aid of a good cause! She fawned: she deemed herself very despicably her hero's inferior.

The thought of him enclosed her.

In a prison, the gaoler is a demi-God-hued bright or black, as it may be; and, by the present arrangement between the sexes, she, whom the world allowed not to have an intimation from eye or ear, or from nature's blood-ripeness in commune with them, of certain matters, which it suffers to be notorious, necessarily directed her appeal almost in worship to the man, who was the one man endowed to relieve, and who locked her mouth for shame.
Thus was she, too, being put into her woman's harness of the bit and the blinkers, and taught to know herself for the weak thing, the gentle parasite, which the fiction of our civilization expects her, caressingly and contemptuously, to become in the active, while it is exacted of hero Comedy of Clowns!--that in the passive she be a rockfortress impregnable, not to speak of magically encircled.