'Twas as a revelation to her.

She had never known a republican government before, student as she is.

Nicholas, your long legs and my long head may have done some work after all! How did she seem to part with you ?" "As though she hated me; as though she hated herself and all the world.
Yet not quite that, either.

As though she would have wept--that is the truth.

I do not pretend to understand her.