A success--of course it would be a success if Janet wrote it--she was not artistic enough to fail.

Ah, should Janet's friend go so far as to say that?
She didn't know--she would think afterward; but Janet was of those who succeed, and there were more ways than one of deserving success.

Janet was a compromise; she belonged really to the British public and the class of Academy studies from the nude which were always draped, just a little.

Elfrida found a bitter satisfaction in this simile, and elaborated it.
The book would be one to be commended for _jeunes filles_, and her lips turned down mockingly in the shadow.

She fancied some well-meaning critic saying, "It should be on every drawing-room table," and she almost laughed outright.