How to take Julia up-stairs?
Mrs.Wehle and Wilhelmina and the doctor went in regularly, not by the rope-ladder, but by a more secure wooden one which he had planted against the outside of the house.

But Andrew had suddenly conceived so exalted an opinion of his niece's virtues that he was unwilling to lead her into the upper story in that fashion.

His imagination had invested her with all the glories of all the heroines, from Penelope to Beatrice, and from Beatrice to Scott's Rebecca.

At last a sudden impulse seized him.
"My dear daughter, they say that genius is to madness close allied.

When I built this house I was in a state bordering on insanity, I suppose.