She had an unequalled gift, usually pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into opportunities.

“Her memory's your love. You want no other.”

“By the time she had grown sharper,..., she found in her mind a collection of im…”

“The chief impression produced on Isabel's spirit by this criticism, was that th…”

“She looked about her again, on her feet, at her scattered melancholy comrades -…”