15.
Who toiled a slave may come anew a Prince
For gentle worthiness and merit won;
Who ruled a king may wander earth in rags
For things done and undone.—E. Arnold.
16. It was somewhat wistfully that she asked her husband how far this place was from her home, and whether, when he was at work, she could not come down here by herself.—Black.
17. They set up their country as their idol, and proposed to themselves the heroes of Plutarch as their examples.—Macaulay.
18. He was sent to St. Luke’s and dismissed as cured.—Miss Mitford.
19. Mrs. Smith was a matron whose countenance addressed itself to the mind rather than to the eye.—T. Hardy.
20. At the far end of the vista he could behold her in her childhood as the daughter of a cavalier land-holder in the valley of the James.—J. L. Allen.