"That is not the first time I have heard this.

More than one person has mentioned it to me before.

I suppose it is that authorship is reckoned as one of the bad habits of an emancipated woman." Jacob Worse again began to lose his self-command.

"I don't mind your calling me a coward, Miss Garman.

But when you think, or pretend to think, that I am not speaking more seriously than some of these--" "No, no; sit down, I beg you," said Rachel, anxiously, putting her hand on his arm.