You are not accustomed to such stifling crowds, where we seem plunged in an exhausted receiver." "I never wish to be in such another," I answered, with emphasis.

"I never care to leave home again." "I am sorry your first impressions should have been so disagreeable,--but I hope you have been interested in some small degree.
You do not know what inspiration there was in your presence.

At first, I thought I would rather be shot from the cannon's mouth than speak in your hearing; but after the first shock, you were like a fountain of living waters playing on my soul." Poor Richard! how could I tell him that I had not heard understandingly one sentence that he uttered?
or how could I explain the cause of my mental distraction?
He had cast his pearls to the wind; his diamonds to the sand.
Mrs.Linwood was a guest of the president, who was an intimate and valued friend.

I would have given worlds for a little solitary nook, where I could hide myself from every eye; for a seat beneath the wild oaks that girdled the cottage of my childhood; but the house was thronged with the literati of the State, and wherever I turned I met the gaze of strangers.

If I could have seen Mrs.Linwood alone, or Edith alone, and told them how wantonly, how cruelly my feelings had been wounded, it would have relieved the fulness, the oppression of my heart.
But that was impossible.