I think he could have done a great deal in this direction if he had studied while young, for he seems to enjoy reasoning out things, no matter what; in a great many such directions he has greater ability than in the gifts which have made him famous.
Thus at fourteen she had made up her mind about me, and in no timorous or uncertain terms had set down her reasons for her opinion.

Fifteen years were to pass before any other critic--except Mr.Howells, I think--was to reutter that daring opinion and print it.

Right or wrong, it was a brave position for that little analyser to take.

She never withdrew it afterward, nor modified it.

She has spoken of herself as lacking physical courage, and has evinced her admiration of Clara's; but she had moral courage, which is the rarest of human qualities, and she kept it functionable by exercising it.