Perhaps it was her rare, peculiar beauty, speaking eloquently of virtue such as I had never known, that touched me.

I cannot say what the impelling cause was, but this I know: my heart went out in pity to her, and all that was good within me--good, which I had never before suspected--stirred in my soul, and my past life seemed black and barren beyond endurance.

Even Dorothy's marvellous beauty lacked the subtle quality which this simple blind girl possessed.

The first step in regeneration is to see one's faults; the second is to regret them; the third is to quit them.

The first and second steps constitute repentance; the second and third regeneration.