"Ellen, there is but one thing that binds me to a past that was a hardship, but which after all was a liberty; and that one thing is the fact that I am independent of the Colossus, the mill where thousands of feet are treading.

I have one glimpse of freedom, and that is through the window of my office.

It isn't possible that you can wholly understand me, but let me tell you one time for all that I shall have nothing to do with the store." She put his hand off her head and settled back in her chair.

"I thought you might if I asked you, but I ought to have known that nothing I could say would have any effect.

You don't care for me; you don't care for any of us." "Ellen, it is but natural that you should side with father against me, and it is also natural that I should decide in favor of myself.