Also Hopkins paid me money, which I had sufficient knowledge to realize was necessary to me.
"Oh, how happy and gay I was in those first few days! There was not a thought of the past, not an ambition or desire of any sort to bother me.
Just to live seemed pleasure enough.

I enjoyed eating and sleeping; I loved to talk and laugh; I was glad to have work to occupy me--and that was all! Then things began to happen that puzzled me.

The man Hopkins declared he could not trust me because I had once been a thief, and I wondered if he could speak truly.

I resented the thought that I may once have been a thief, although I wouldn't mind stealing, even now, if I wanted anything and could take it." "Oh, Eliza!" gasped Louise.
"It sounds wicked, doesn't it?
But it is true.

Nothing seems to influence me so strongly as my own whims.