Or, if there should be always the ailing to help, a man will help them by being sound himself, not by knowing the ins and outs of disease.

Diagnosis is not therapy.
Sepia was unnatural--as every one is unnatural who does not set his face in the direction of the true Nature; but she had gone further in the opposite direction than many people have yet reached.

At the same time, whoever has not faced about is on the way to a capacity for worse things than even our enemies would believe of us.
Her very existence seemed to her now at stake.

If by his dying act Mr.
Redmain should drive her from under Hesper's roof, what was to become of her! Durnmelling, too, would then be as certainly closed against her, and she would be compelled to take a situation, and teach music, which she hated, and French and German, which gave her no pleasure apart from certain strata of their literature, to insolent girls whom she would be constantly wishing to strangle, or stupid little boys who would bore her to death.

Her very soul sickened at the thought--as well it might; for to have to do such service with such a heart as hers, must indeed be torment.