Poor thing! you know she is so very "high-strung," such delicate sensibilities! She has an _idee fixe_--so very sad.

Ah yes! that is it.

She never had an idea before, and now that she has one she cannot get rid of it, and it will kill her in time.
Now people whose intellect is of a low class are not disturbed with visions of all that there is to be known, nor with a foolish desire to appear to know it.

On the other hand, they are perfectly capable of understanding what is honourable or dishonourable, mean or generous, and they are very tenacious of these principles, believing that in the letter of the law is salvation.

They are not vain of qualities and powers not theirs; and, consequently, when they promise, they promise what they are able to perform.