You may let out your heels at the social laws, you are almost expected to do it, but you are to shake that young pate of yours restively under such a splendid encumbrance.

Private reports of John, however, gave him credit for sound opinions: he was moderate, merely progressive.

When it was added that the man had the habit of taking counsel with his sister, he was at once considered as fast and safe, not because of any public knowledge of the character of Jane Mattock.

We pay this homage to the settled common sense of women.

Distinctly does she discountenance leaps in the dark, wild driving, and the freaks of Radicalism.
John, as it happened, had not so grave a respect for the sex as for the individual Jane.