She is known the world over as the woman who discovered it.

The sweetness was turned to adamantine, heartless cruelty, and the purity to voluptuous wantonness.

a sluggish man

Walter declined the invitation, precisely because he wanted a dinner. He was, also, conscious that he had made a very bad bargain; but how could he chaffer and dispute about things so precious as the contents of those pages which were the very outpourings of his heart?