I'd have courage to live out every throe of anguish fate assigned me, and principle to contend for justice and liberty to the last." "I see you would have made no patient Grizzle.

And now, supposing fate had merely assigned you the lot of an old maid, what then?
How would you have liked celibacy ?" "Not much, certainly.

An old maid's life must doubtless be void and vapid--her heart strained and empty.

Had I been an old maid I should have spent existence in efforts to fill the void and ease the aching.

I should have probably failed, and died weary and disappointed, despised and of no account, like other single women.