He seemed to look upon me as a child, such as average English girls, fresh from little schools, would be.

Nothing more annoyed me, after all my thoughts and dream of some power in myself, than this.
"Perhaps I might tell you a thing or two," he said, while I kept gazing at some fishing-boats, and sat down again, as a sign for him to go--"a little thing or two of which you have no idea, even in your most lonely musings, which might have a very deep interest for you.

Do you think that I came to this hole to see the sea?
Or that fussy old muff of a Major's doings ?" "Perhaps you would like me to tell him your opinion of his intellect and great plans," I answered.

"And after all his kindness to you!" "You never will do that," he said; "because you are a lady, and will not repeat what is said in confidence.

I could help you materially in your great object, if you would only make a friend of me." "And what would your own object be?
The pure anxiety to do right ?" "Partly, and I might say mainly, that; also an ambition for your good opinion, which seems so inaccessible.