I can't kneel before you and exclaim about my miserable unworthiness--for I am not unworthy of you.

I shall never call you queen and goddess--unless in delirium, and I think I should soon weary of the woman who put her head under my foot.

Just because I am stronger than you, and have stronger passions, I take that advantage--try to overcome, as I may, the womanly resistance which is one of your charms.
'How useless, then, for us to talk.

If you are determined to remind me again and again that your strength puts me at your mercy--' 'Oh, not that! I will come no nearer to you.

Sit down, and tell me what I asked.' Rhoda hesitated, but at length took the chair by which she was standing.
'You are resolved never to marry ?' 'I never shall,' Rhoda replied firmly.
'But suppose marriage in no way interfered with your work ?' 'It would interfere hopelessly with the best part of my life.