There is nothing about it either in the Bible or the Prayer-book.

She will die.' Aunt Polly said this in a tone of voice which made it a matter of regret that she should not have been educated for Drury Lane.

But as she said it, he could not avoid thinking of Julia's large ankles, and red cheeks, and of the new green hat and feather.

A girl with large ankles is, one may suppose, as liable to die for love as though she were as fine about her feet as a thorough-bred filly; and there is surely no reason why a true heart and a pair of cherry cheeks should not go together.

But our imagination has created ideas in such matters so fixed, that it is useless to contend against them.