I love Leah Herrick's little finger better than your whole body with your Jezebel's bodice, and your fine lady's airs.

You had better go now and marry that conceited popinjay up at Jo Putnam's, if you can get him." With that he pushed off down the hill, and up the road, that he might not be forced to accompany her back to the village.
Dulcibel was not prepared for such a burst of wrath, and such an uncovering of the heart.

Which of us has not been struck with wonder, even far more than indignation, at such times?
A sudden difference occurs, and the man or the woman in whom you have had faith, and whom you have believed noble and admirable, suddenly appears what he or she really is, a very common and vulgar nature.

It makes us sick at heart that we could have been so deceived.
Such was the effect upon Dulcibel.

What a chasm she had escaped.