"I must send for your physician.
Have you not ordered that he be sent for yourself?
If Osmonde were here, how perturbed he would be!" "Osmonde!" said my lady.

"Gerald! Is there a Gerald, Anne ?" "Sister!" cried Anne, affrighted by her strange look--"oh, sister!" "I have seen heaven," Clorinda said; "I have stood on the threshold and seen through the part-opened gate--and then have been dragged back to hell." Anne clung to her, gazing upwards at her eyes, in sheer despair.
"But back to hell I will not go," she went on saying.

"Had I not seen Heaven, they might perhaps have dragged me; but now I will not go--I will not, that I swear! There is a thing which cannot be endured.

Bear it no woman should.

Even I, who was not born a woman, but a wolf's she-cub, I cannot.