“The horrid mystery hanging over us in this house gets into my head like liquor, and makes me wild.”

“I say what other people only think, and when all the rest of the world is in a conspiracy to accept the mask for the true face, mine is the rash hand that tears off the plump pasteboard, and...”

“I am not against hasty marriages where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.”

“The books—the generous friends who met me without suspicion—the merciful masters who never used me ill! The only years of my life that I can look back on with something like pride... Early a...”