How marvellously expressive her face was, with its earnest eyes and mobile mouth! "If I were a man,--and great heavens! how I wish I were one!--I would create the strength if it were not there of itself.

I would force myself upward.
I would never rest till I had become something more than nature originally made me." "Then Heaven be thanked, who has spared us the monstrosity you would have developed into under the harrowing circumstances of a reversal of your sex," said De Forest, devoutly.
"I was always glad you were a woman.

Now I am positively aglow with gratitude for it." Denham was silent.

They had reached Mrs.Lane's now, and Gerald and her cavalier paused.
"I have not hurt you, Mr.Halloway, have I ?" said Gerald, more gently.

"I know I sometimes speak strongly where I am least qualified to do so." "A very womanly trait," put in De Forest.