I can see it leaking out in fifty different ways,--just the same strong, overbearing, dominant spirit.

You know very well how impossible it is to persuade some of the folks in your village that Squire Sinclair does not feel above them.

The fact is, though he has fallen on democratic times, and embraced a democratic theory, he is to the heart an aristocrat, as much as my father, who ruled over five or six hundred slaves." Miss Ophelia felt rather disposed to cavil at this picture, and was laying down her knitting to begin, but St.Clare stopped her.
"Now, I know every word you are going to say.

I do not say they _were_ alike, in fact.

One fell into a condition where everything acted against the natural tendency, and the other where everything acted for it; and so one turned out a pretty wilful, stout, overbearing old democrat, and the other a wilful, stout old despot.