I am nearly twenty-one.

Any other young man would have been a man long ago.

And I will be a man--why should I not?
True manliness is not solely outside.

I dare say you could find many a fool and a coward six feet high." "Yes," answered Helen, all she could find to say.
"And if I have nothing else, I have brains--quite as good brains, I think, as my neighbors.

They can not say of me now that I'm 'no a' there.' Nay, Helen, don't look so fierce; they meant me no ill; it was but natural.