Then he would go away hating and cursing the whole sex, and she would calmly add his scalp to her string, while she mused upon the bitter day that Col.

Selby trampled her love and her pride in the dust.

In time it came to be said that her way was paved with broken hearts.
Poor Washington gradually woke up to the fact that he too was an intellectual marvel as well as his gifted sister.

He could not conceive how it had come about (it did not occur to him that the gossip about his family's great wealth had any thing to do with it).

He could not account for it by any process of reasoning, and was simply obliged to accept the fact and give up trying to solve the riddle.