Don't think I shall reform after this moral shock as people do in books.

I am what I am.
But I acknowledge that an egotist doesn't make an agreeable picture, however charmingly you apologize for her.

It is a personality of stone, isn't it ?--implacable, unchangeable.
I've often felt that." Kendal was incapable of denying a word of what she said.
"If it is any comfort to you to know it," he ventured, "hardly any one will see in it what you--and I--see." "Yes," she said, with a smile, "that's true.

I shan't mind its going to the Academy." She sat down again and looked fixedly at the picture, her chin propped in her hand.

"Don't you feel," she said, looking up at him with a little childish gesture of confidence, "as if you had stolen something from me ?" "Yes," Kendal declared honestly, "I do.