"Can we not still be wholly our independent

selves, even while doing, in the main, as others

do? I know two who are so; but they are married."

"The men who admire these bold, dashing

young girls treat them like weaker copies of themselves.

And yet they boast of what they call 'experience!'"

"I wonder if any one felt the exquisite beauty

of the noon as I did, to-day? A faint appreciation

of sunsets and storms is taught us in youth,

and kept alive by novels and flirtations; but the