A psychometrist could detect Wagner and Keats, and Schopenhauer, and Rossetti and Swinburne, and all the rest of them in that wall-paper, just as surely as he could have detected Tupper and Eliza Cook in the wall-papers of 1851.

Am I not right ?" "If we could only paper New Zion like this!" exclaimed Theophil, a curious new feeling of joy and pain shooting through him to hear a woman thus expressing herself as an independent brain.
"Yes! New Zion! I'd quite forgotten all about New Zion.

It seems impossible to think of you together." "And a little absurd, I suppose," said Theophil.
"It is uncouth material, I admit," he continued, "and yet somehow it amuses us to mould it all the more; and then you mustn't forget that we had been given no other--but I don't suppose you can understand ?" (Theophil often used "we" in this imperatorial sense, meaning himself, as of course he had every right to mean.) "O yes, but I can," Isabel hastened to correct.

"I understand power." "Beauty always does," was the young minister's reply.
"Besides," he presently resumed, "we are glad to have been Nonconformists--once.

A Puritan training is a good thing--to look back upon.