"She's not learned, I admit," replied Olive, "but weak! no, she's not weak; no weak character could be so audacious, so fearless, so indifferent to her own ignorance."[Pg 28]
"You can please yourself about that," said Miss Patience, in her calmest voice. She left the room, closing the door behind her.
[Pg 43]What could it all mean? It really was most exciting."Yes, you ought. I'm going to give you a lovely description. Papa has had his dinner, and he's pacing up and down on the walk which hangs over the lake. He is smoking a meerschaum pipe, and the dogs are with him."
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"As to disliking Miss O'Hara, it's more a case of despising; she's beneath my dislike.""That's as bad as the other expression, Bridget."
"I can't help it, my dear; I'm honest, whatever I am."
"Oh, but I hate self-denial, and that dreadful motto—'No cross, no crown.' I'm like a butterfly—I can't live without sunshine. Papa agrees with me that sunshine is necessary for life."
"What about Evelyn?" inquired Dorothy.