--the ethereal, fine-nerved, sensitive girl, quite unfitted by temperament and instinct to fulfil the conditions of the matrimonial relation with Phillotson, possibly with scarce any man...

“Oh, my poor friend and comrade, you'll suffer yet!”

“Eustacia Vye was the raw material of a divinity. On Olympus she would have done…”

“I like reading and all that, but a crave to get back to the life of my infancy …”

“The intentions as to reading, working, and learning, which he had so precisely …”