She's no fool, though that ruffian called her one.

She knew what she was doing, yet for all her woman's heart she faced disgrace as unflinchingly as if it was, only death.

It was a great action, a noble action, a just action, and a manly action, but done like a very woman.
Where the two sexes meet like that in one brave deed it's grand.

I declare it warms an old soldier's heart, and makes him thank God there are a few creatures in the world that do humanity honor." As the Colonel was a man that stuck to a topic when he got upon it, this was the main of his talk all the way to Clifford Hall.

He even remarked to his niece that, so far as his observations of the sex extended, great love of justice was not the leading feature of the female mind; other virtues he ventured to think were more prominent.
"So everybody says," was Julia's admission.
"Everybody is right for once," said the Colonel.
They entered the house together, and Miss Clifford went up to her room; there she put on a new bonnet and a lovely shawl, recently imported from Paris.