She is a vital spirit; she chafes at chains; and she is smarting from a sense of inferiority.

There is a thirst for power in her little body that may make her either an actress or a politician." "Now, it seems to me that if she has any sense it is one of superiority.
She treated me like a brick under her feet." For a minute Corinna was silent.

The smile on her lips had grown tenderly humorous; and there was a softness in her eyes which made him sorry that he had not known her when he was a child.

"Do you know what she told me to-day ?" she said.

"She studies a page of the dictionary every morning, and she tries to remember and practise all day the new words that she learns.