'Let me go to my bed,' he said at last, and he rose, and, shaking as with ague, but quite silent, lighted his candle, and left the kitchen.
Poor Nance! the pleasant current of her dreams was all diverted.

She beheld a golden city, where she aspired to dwell; she had spoken with a deity, and had told herself that she might rise to be his equal; and now the earthly ligaments that bound her down had been tightened.

She was like a tree looking skyward, her roots were in the ground.

It seemed to her a thing so coarse, so rustic, to be thus concerned about a loss in money; when Mr.Archer, fallen from the sky-level of counts and nobles, faced his changed destiny with so immovable a courage.

To weary of honesty; that, at least, no one could do, but even to name it was already a disgrace; and she beheld in fancy her uncle, and the young lad, all laced and feathered, hand upon hip, bestriding his small horse.