And there's so deuced little enterprise in the business.

If you'd give your mind to it, you might make hundreds a year.' 'Better say "abandon your mind to it."' 'Why, there you are! You're a sharp enough girl.

You can quote as well as anyone I know.' 'And please, why am I to take up an inferior kind of work ?' 'Inferior?
Oh, if you can be a George Eliot, begin at the earliest opportunity.

I merely suggested what seemed practicable.
But I don't think you have genius, Maud.

People have got that ancient prejudice so firmly rooted in their heads--that one mustn't write save at the dictation of the Holy Spirit.