Providence does not comply with our predictions in order to stultify us.

Admitting the position of affairs for the moment as extraordinary, we are bound by what has happened to expect they will be conformable in the end.

Temporarily warped, we should say of them.
She could point to the reason: it was Lord Ormont's blunt misunderstanding of her character.

The burgess's daughter was refining to an appreciation of the exquisite so rapidly that she could criticize patricians.

My lord had never forgiven her for correcting him in his pronunciation of her name by marriage.