She has a portfolio, filled with papers written, like Ezekiel's scroll, within and without.

I wish you would let me get it, Gabriella,--do." "Impossible!" I answered, "I never wrote but one poem for exhibition, and the experience of that hour was sufficient for a lifetime." "You were but a child then, Gabriella.

Mr.Regulus would give it a very different reception now, I know he would," said Edith.
"If it is a child's story, will you not relate it ?" asked Ernest; "you have excited my curiosity." "Curiosity, brother, I thought you possessed none." "Interest is a better word.

If I understand aright, the buddings of Gabriella's genius met with an untimely blight." I know not how it was, but I felt in an exceedingly ingenuous mood, and I related this episode in my childish history without reserve.

I touched lightly on the championship of Richard Clyde, but I was obliged to introduce it.