I may be able to restrain my feelings at the sight of the Beef Eaters, but they will upset me a little, and I must brace myself, I must indeed." "Truly, Betty ?" said Mrs.Worthington, regarding her with curiosity, arising from a faint doubt of her entire seriousness, mingled with a fainter doubt of her entire levity.
Betty flung out her hands in a slight, but very involuntary-looking, gesture, and shook her head.
"Ah!" she said, "it was all TRUE, you know.

They were all horribly real--the things that were shuddered over and sentimentalised about.
Sophistication, combined with imagination, makes them materialise again, to me, at least, now I am here.

The gulf between a historical figure and a man or woman who could bleed and cry out in human words was broad when one was at school.

Lady Jane Grey, for instance, how nebulous she was and how little one cared.

She seemed invented merely to add a detail to one's lesson in English history.