She has bought a typewriter and purchased a great number of soft pencils and erasers at an art shop; I am only surprised that she does not intend to edit your miserable paper in water-colors.

She is coming at once.

For mercy's sake don't telegraph her not to; your forbiddings work the wrong way.

Our only hope is that she will find the conditions so utterly discouraging at the very start that she will give it up and come home.
If you are a man you will help to make them so.

She has promised to stay with that country girl with whom she contracted such an incomprehensible friendship at Miss Jennings's.
"Oh, James, pray for grace to be a man once in your life and send her back to us! Be a man--try to be a man! Remember the angel you killed! Remember all we have done for you and what a return you have made, and be a man for the first time.