For as to the system in which we live, we are so ignorant that we can but blunderingly feel our way in it; and if we knew all its laws, we could neither order nor control, save by a poor subservience.

We are the slaves of our circumstance, therefore betake ourselves to dreams of what _ought to be_." Miss Meredith was silent for a time.
"I can not see how to answer you," she said at length.

"But you do not disturb my hope of seeing my father again.

We have a sure word of prophecy." Faber suppressed the smile of courteous contempt that was ready to break forth, and she went on: "It would ill become me to doubt to-day, as you will grant when I tell you a wonderful fact.

This morning I had not money enough to buy myself the pair of strong shoes you told me I must wear.