"That's very well, but it wouldn't make me see him." "Do you want very much to see him ?" It seemed ungracious to catechise so charming a creature, but somehow I had never yet taken my duty to the great author so seriously.
"Enough to have come from America for the purpose." I stared.

"All alone ?" "I don't see that that's exactly your business, but if it will make me more seductive I'll confess that I'm quite by myself.

I had to come alone or not come at all." She was interesting; I could imagine she had lost parents, natural protectors--could conceive even she had inherited money.

I was at a pass of my own fortunes when keeping hansoms at doors seemed to me pure swagger.

As a trick of this bold and sensitive girl, however, it became romantic--a part of the general romance of her freedom, her errand, her innocence.