"Live smoothly, or live at all, without regard to other people."
"It is of the world at large I was speaking," said Elizabeth. "Of course there are some few, a very few, whose word — and whose thought — one would care for and strive for, — that is not what I mean."
"And who are those few fine persons?" said Mr. Herder significantly.
"He is unhappy that doesn't know one or two," Elizabeth answered with infinite gravity.
"And the opinions of the rest of men you would despise?" said
Rufus.
"Utterly! — so far as they trenched upon my freedom of action."
"You can't live so," said Rufus shaking his head.
"I will live so, if I live at all."
"Wint'rop, you do not say nozing," said the naturalist.
"What need, sir?"