Mr.Wayland, who is a student, had a splendid library, and he gave me some ideas as to reading." "Can you part with any of them ?" "That depends," she replied, with a manner as brusque as his own.
"On what ?" "The inducements and natural opportunities.

I'm not going to recite a lesson like a schoolgirl." "One would think you had been to school." "I have, where much is taught and learned thoroughly." "Now, that is enigmatical again." "The best of the books you sent me left some room for the imagination." "Ha, ha, ha, Madge! you are scoring points right along.

I told you, Graydon, that you couldn't understand her in a moment or in a week." "I never regarded your imagination as rampant, Henry.

Have you fathomed all her mystery ?" "Far from it; nor do I expect to, and yet you will grant to me some degree of penetration." "Well, to think that I should have come home to find a sphinx instead of little Madge!" "Thank you.

A sphinx is usually portrayed with at least the head of a woman." "In this case she has one that would inspire a Greek sculptor.