I wish we had more on our side with the stuff you are made of.

There would be hope of a speedier reform than is now promised." "Heaven send the reform right early! It cannot come a day too soon." Irene spoke with rising ardor.
"It will be our own fault," said Mrs.Talbot, "if we longer bow our necks to the yoke or move obedient to our task-masters.

Let us lay the axe to the very root of this evil and hew it down." "Even if we are crushed by the tree in falling," responded Irene, in the spirit of a martyr.
From this interview our wrong-directed young friend went home with more clearly defined purposes touching her conduct toward her husband than she had hitherto entertained.

She saw him in a new aspect, and in a character more definitely outlined.

He loomed up in more colossal proportions, and put on sterner features.