The light of intelligence came into his eager eyes, and I could see that he was not certain if he could tell the truth.
"Please, my lady, I always hearken when I hear folk talking secrets; but I mean no harm." My poor lady sighed: she was not prepared to begin a long way off in morals.

Honour was, to her, second nature, and she had never tried to find out on what principle its laws were based.

So, telling the lad that she wished to see Mr.Horner when he returned from Warwick, she dismissed him with a despondent look; he, meanwhile, right glad to be out of the awful gentleness of her presence.
"What is to be done ?" said she, half to herself and half to me.

I could not answer, for I was puzzled myself.
"It was a right word," she continued, "that I used, when I called reading and writing 'edge-tools.' If our lower orders have these edge-tools given to them, we shall have the terrible scenes of the French Revolution acted over again in England.

When I was a girl, one never heard of the rights of men, one only heard of the duties.