I ought to make an effort to get along.

You see, it's very foolish in me, but places affect my spirits so.

It's perfectly absurd how I am affected." "Well, Lillie, I hope this place doesn't affect you unpleasantly," said John.
"It's a nice, darling place, John, and it's very silly in me; but it is a fact that this house somehow has a depressing effect on my spirits.

You know it's not like the houses I've been used to.

It has a sort of old look; and I can't help feeling that it puts me in mind of those who are dead and gone; and then I think I shall be dead and gone too, some day, and it makes me cry so.