People with base minds must think basely; there was no help for it.
Those whom she would make her friends would know very well for what purpose she wanted money, power, and the support of such a man, and such a marriage.

Her modern realism played with the thought quite freely; her maidenliness, proud and pure as it was, being nowise ashamed.

Oh! for something to carry her _deep_ into life; into the heart of its widest and most splendid opportunities! She threw up her hands, clasping them above her head amid her clouds of curly hair--a girlish excited gesture.
"I could revive the straw-plaiting; give them better teaching and better models.

The cottages should be rebuilt.

Papa would willingly hand the village over to me if I found the money! We would have a parish committee to deal with the charities--oh! the Hardens would come in.