'Did she come through it safely ?' 'Without any personal disfigurement: and is in England now, under her father's roof, meditating fresh adventures.' Kathleen cried: 'Ye 're talking of the lady who was Miss Adister--I can guess--Ah!' She humped her shoulders and sent a shudder up her neck.
'But she's a grand creature, Mr.Colesworth, and you ought to know her,' said Con.

'That is, if you'd like to have an idea of a young Catherine or a Semiramisminus an army and a country.

There's nothing she's not capable of aiming at.

And there's pretty well nothing and nobody she wouldn't make use of.

She has great notions of the power of the British Press and the British purse--each in turn as a key to the other.