He should have said: 'God gives me this gift, He will find me energy to work for it and suffer for it.

We will all live together, struggle together if it is necessary, a little more poorly, a little more laboriously, but keeping true to the best aims of life, all of us.' That's what _my_ Ninian would have said.

I don't like to see noble Ninians crushed flat under family Juggernauts, from whatever heroic motives--not I.Do you forgive me for being so candid?
I must tell you that Mrs.Jameson, who is staying in this house, read your book in England and mentioned it to me as a good book, 'very gracefully written,' before I read it, quite irrespectively, too, of my dedication, which was absent from the copy she saw at Brighton.

It was mentioned as one of the novels which had pleased her most lately.
I shall like to show you my child, as you like children, and as I am vain--oh, past endurance vain, about him.

You won't understand a word he says, though, for he speaks three languages at once, and most of the syllables of each wrong side foremost.
No, don't call me a Bonapartist.