"In that, I dare say, all classes are pretty much alike.

But, of course, there are differences." "Perhaps one of them is, that, in our class, we make respectability more a question of the individual than you do in yours." "That may be very true," returned Hesper.

"So long as a man behaves himself, we ask no questions." "Will you let me tell you how the thing looks to me ?" said Mary.
"Certainly.

You do not suppose I care for the opinions of the people about me! I, too, have my way of looking at things." So said Hesper; yet it was just the opinions of the people about her that ruled all those of her actions that could be said to be ruled at all.

No one boasts of freedom except the willing slave--the man so utterly a slave that he feels nothing irksome in his fetters.