It goes to my heart to see a woman of that age, with nothing to look forward to but kicks and blows.

I have tried hard to make her understand something of the next world: but I can't get it out of her head that when she dies she will go across the water and come back a young white woman with plenty of money.

Mr.Sandford, the missionary, says he has never found one who could be made to comprehend the existence of God.

However, I came to call you to lunch; will you give me your arm ?" Such a self-possessed, intrepid little maiden, not a bit afraid of him, but seeming to understand and trust him so thoroughly.

Not all the mock-modesty and blushing in the world would have won him half so surely, as did her bold, quiet, honest look.