But it's a difficulty that I'm facing, if you wish to know; that I've already faced; that I propose to myself to surmount.

The struggle with it--none too pleasant--hasn't been for me, as you may imagine, in itself charming; I've felt in it at times, if I must tell you all, too great and too strange, an ugliness.

Yet I believe it may succeed." She had risen, with this, Mrs.Verver, and had moved, for the emphasis of it, a few steps away; while Maggie, motionless at first, but sat and looked at her.

"You want to take my father FROM me ?" The sharp, successful, almost primitive wail in it made Charlotte turn, and this movement attested for the Princess the felicity of her deceit.
Something in her throbbed as it had throbbed the night she stood in the drawing-room and denied that she had suffered.

She was ready to lie again if her companion would but give her the opening.