It had soothed her perturbed spirit better than all the opiates in the pharmacopoeia.

She had slept unbrokenly a whole night and a day.

The "new law" was to her a mysterious, beneficent, godlike entity, lately descended upon earth, that would make her as she once had been without trouble or annoyance.

Her position fretted her, its abstract features rousing an aversion which was even greater than her aversion to the personality of him who had caused it.

It was mortifying, productive of slights, undignified.