Yet, as the doctor might hold such an opinion if he believed himself to be constituted differently from ordinary men; or the shipmaster adopt such a course under the impression that his vessel was a star, Agatha found false security in the subjective difference between her fellows seen from without and herself known from within.

When, for instance, she fell in love with Mr.
Jefferson Smilash (a step upon which she resolved the day after the storm), her imagination invested the pleasing emotion with a sacredness which, to her, set it far apart and distinct from the frivolous fancies of which Henry and Augustus had been the subject, and she the confidant.
"I can look at him quite coolly and dispassionately," she said to herself.

"Though his face has a strange influence that must, I know, correspond to some unexplained power within me, yet it is not a perfect face.

I have seen many men who are, strictly speaking, far handsomer.

If the light that never was on sea or land is in his eyes, yet they are not pretty eyes--not half so clear as mine.