"You don't mean _she_ fainted!" he said.
Miss Minerva held up the indicative forefinger, with which she emphasized instruction when her pupils required rousing.

"Mrs.
Gallilee's strength of mind--as I was about to say, if you had listened to me--resisted the shock.

What the effort must have cost her you will presently understand.

Our interesting young lady was accompanied by a hideous old foreign woman who completely lost her head.

She smacked her hands distractedly; she called on the saints (without producing the slightest effect)--but she mixed up a name, remarkable even in Italy, with the rest of the delirium; and _that_ was serious.