I warn you, Alice! You're ashamed o' your own mother--oh, I've seen it! But it's a mercy if you're not a disgrace to her.

I'm thankful as I was always poor; I might 'a been tempted i' the same way.' The dogma of a rude nature full of secret forces found utterance at length under the scourge of a resentment of very mingled quality.

Let half be put to the various forms of disinterested feeling, at least half was due to personal exasperation.

The whole change that her life had perforce undergone was an outrage upon the stubbornness of uninstructed habit; the old woman could see nothing but evil omens in a revolution which cost her bodily discomfort and the misery of a mind perplexed amid alien conditions.

She was prepared for evil; for months she had brooded over every sign which seemed to foretell its approach; the egoism of the unconscious had made it plain to her that the world must suffer in a state of things which so grievously affected herself.