Girls that are sweet and loving and trusting, like Katy, have always been and will always be victims of rakish fools like Smith Westcott.

I wish I were an Indian, and then I could be my own Providence.

I would cut short his career, and make what David said about wicked men being cut off come true in this case, in the same way as I suppose David did in the case of the wicked of his day, by cutting them off himself." Isabel was thoroughly shocked with this speech.

What good religious girl would not have been?
She told Mr.Charlton with much plainness of speech that she thought common modesty might keep him from making such criticisms on God.

She for her part doubted whether all the facts of the case were known to him.