"Why when a woman's at once so charming and so beneficent--" "You can sacrifice mothers and sisters to her without a blush and can make them cross the ocean on purpose to feel the more and take from you the straighter, HOW you do it ?" Yes, she had taken him up as short and as sharply as that, but he tried not to flounder in her grasp.

"I don't think there's anything I've done in any such calculated way as you describe.

Everything has come as a sort of indistinguishable part of everything else.

Your coming out belonged closely to my having come before you, and my having come was a result of our general state of mind.

Our general state of mind had proceeded, on its side, from our queer ignorance, our queer misconceptions and confusions--from which, since then, an inexorable tide of light seems to have floated us into our perhaps still queerer knowledge.