"It has taught me more than all my life put together.

I have learned so much and unlearned so much.

I am a different girl." "I never understood my own nature before," said Stephens.

"I can hardly say that I had a nature to understand.

I lived for what was unimportant, and I neglected what was vital." "Oh, a good shake-up does nobody any harm," the Colonel remarked.
"Too much of the feather-bed-and-four-meals-a-day life is not good for man or woman." "It is my firm belief," said Mrs.Belmont gravely, "that there was not one of us who did not rise to a greater height during those days in the desert than ever before or since.