Rosa Campbell Praed

“ As if an American reputation wasn't good enough! But that's the way with all of them. She's travelling by herself, and she's under the captain's charge. Pretty, ain't she?—but too like a ghost to suit my style."
Lendon continued to glance from time to time at Miss Brett, and, as was natural to him, theories concerning her began to shape themselves in his mind. He was quite certain that she did not want to "make a boom." He could imagine nothing more repugnant to her temperament than the vulgar process of "working the newspaper people." ”

“ It is something outside oneself that really helps. But I always remember what a great actress told me once. Inspiration is a capricious goddess, and it is well to have knowledge ready to take her place in case she should desert one in the hour of need. ”

“ He was obliged to be content with this sort of indefinite promise; and just then the captain came up and began talking to Miss Brett in German—a language which she appeared to speak fluently. He had no further conversation with her before the arrival at Southampton, and in the hurry and confusion of landing he lost sight of her, and to his infinite regret had not even the satisfaction of bidding her good-by. ”

“ Everyone, that is, who feels and thinks, and analyzes feelings and thoughts—artists most peculiarly so. Surely you must often have been conscious of forces within you which base come from outside yourself? ”

“ Walcot Valbry, you will see a great deal of my uncle. She has a high opinion of the Professor and of his discovery."
"Don't think me very ignorant," said Lendon, "but will you tell me what is your uncle's particular field of scientific investigation. I don't go in much for that sort of thing," he went on apologetically; "I think we painters are, of all people, the narrowest in our sympathies and interests ”