He praised the Republican people.
'Yes, but in our own way we are working out our own problems over here,' said she.

'We have infinitely more to contend with: old institutions, monstrous prejudices, and a slower-minded people, I dare say: much slower, I admit.

We are not shining to advantage at present.

Still, that is not the fault of English women.' 'Are they so spirited ?' Spirited was hardly the word Miss Mattock would have chosen to designate the spirit in them.

She hummed a second or two, deliberating; it flashed through her during the pause that he had been guilty of irony, and she reddened: and remembering a foregoing strange sensation she reddened more.