The masculine studies which her erudite tutor opened to a grasping and inquisitive mind, elevated her very errors above the petty distinctions of class.

She imbibed earnestly what Dalibard assumed or felt,--the more dangerous pride of the fallen angel,--and set up the intellect as a deity.

All belonging to the mere study of mind charmed and enchained her; but active and practical in her very reveries, if she brooded, it was to scheme, to plot, to weave, web, and mesh, and to smile in haughty triumph at her own ingenuity and daring.

The first lesson of mere worldly wisdom teaches us to command temper; it was worldly wisdom that made the once impetuous girl calm, tranquil, and serene.

Sir Miles was pleased by a change that removed from Lucretia's outward character its chief blot,--perhaps, as his frame declined, he sighed sometimes to think that with so much majesty there appeared but little tenderness; he took, however, the merits with the faults, and was content upon the whole.
If the Provencal had taken more than common pains with his young pupil, the pains were not solely disinterested.