After a little deliberation, we now were touched to shake off a part of the John Bullism that had encrusted us […] .

Why, dost thou believe that I, who am all-powerful, I, whose loveliness is more than the loveliness of the Grecian Helen, of whom they used to sing, and whose wisdom is wider, ay, far more wide and deep than the wisdom of Solomon the Wise … why, I say, oh stranger, dost thou think that I herd here with barbarians lower than the beasts?

When I began my public life as a transwidow, I knew who knew by the curious or pitying stares we got.

Miss Louise is wiser ner I be,said the old fellow simply;I'm safe to trust to her jedgment, I guess."