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“ The sense of companionship, which I had lost inside the house, had now returned. She and I had occupied the place during one summer only, and much of our time had been spent in this verdurous and flowery enclosure. She dressed in white frocks: the sun sparkled on her hair. We had plucked flowers of antique fashion in the garden adjoining; that faithful, dark-haired waiting-woman of hers had spread out rugs to protect us from the damp, and here had we lain, luxurious, when the dial marked noon, and the blue shadow of the great lime-tree had crept silently toward us over the fairy grass-blades. ”

“ The simple structure of the animal mind disables them from rejecting this leading; but men's minds have become so sophisticated by inferences, deductions, doubts, by all the subtle jugglery of cause and effect, that they mistrust the hints and guidance of the spirit, and laboriously reason their way through life as tropical explorers chop their path through the jungle with a machete. ”

“ It may be want of resolution to obey what any common sensible person would call the dictates of common sense. But it may be that I am governed by the injunctions of a sense that is not common, or at least is not commonly heeded. In animals, it is called instinct; in man, intuition. ”