in

will be able to commit no more. If you were to dig a grave for her in the nearest churchyard and bury her alive in it, you could not more safely shut her from the world and all worldly

To call them the weaker sex is to utter a hideous mockery.

associations.

scarcely think there is a greater sin, Lucy,” he said, solemnly, “than that of a woman who marries a man she does not love.

Do you want to drive me mad? Do you know what it is to wrestle with a mad-woman? No,” cried my lady, with a laugh, “you do not, or you would never—”

some stifled and unsatisfied longing which lay heavy and dull at his heart, as if he had carried a corpse in his bosom.

People who observed this, accounted for it by saying that it was a part of her amiable and gentle nature always to be light-hearted, happy and contented under any circumstances.

The unnatural color still burnt like a flame