Mr. Gratton with his smooth way; he led her to suppose that he had been giving girls a great deal of studious thought for many years, and that only after this thorough investigation did he feel in a position to declare herself to be the most wonderful of her sex.

For all this ARABELLA believes herself to be the best of butterflies, with the capacity to fly in the highest manner.

Marianne, supposing herself to be a widow, married his lordship's son.

But now I see the ladyas steep as the side of a house, and as stonyno, naught but herself can be her parallel in stoniness.

In San Francisco Edna felt herself to be Mrs. Horn as truly as if they had been married at high noon in one of the city churches, but although she could see no reason to change her faith in the reality of her conjugal status, she had begun to fear that Captain Horn might have different views upon the subject.

"When Harriet Hosmer knew herself to be a sculptor, she knew also that in all America was no school for her.

She felt herself to be a sort of prime minister in the small kingdom, and began to deport herself as one having authority.

How should she but couch, Lick the dry lips, unsheathe the blunted claw, Catch 'twixt her placid eyewinks at what chance Old bloody half-forgotten dream may flit, Born when herself was novice to the taste, The while she lets youth take its pleasure" (iv. 40).

Adrien Willaert had a wife, and loved her long and well, and wrote many wills, in which he grew more and more affectionate toward his helpmeet, yet strangely he never mentioned his daughter, who was herself a composer, and had perhaps a romance of her own, down there in Juliet's country where her Flemish father took her.

She felt herself to be the Conscience of the firm.

She was some eighteen months older than William; and when he first came to be an apprentice with her father, and a boarder in his house, she looked upon him as quite a boy, while she considered herself to be a full-grown woman.

In all that big, busy foyer Sophy Gold herself was the one person distinctly out of the picture.

Though she is the most backward country in Europe she believes herself to be the foremost.

Having once arrived at this decision, the Queen-mother resolved, if possible, to seek an asylum at La Capelle, which, being a frontier town, offered all the necessary facilities for her project; and for this purpose she despatched a trusty messenger to Madame de Vardes, whose husband was governor of the place during the temporary absence of his father, and who was herself a former mistress of Henri IV, and the mother of the Comte de Moret.

But she was not going to let herself become grave.

The unfortunate lady's motive for making this revelation was the desire of screening her husband; and so infatuated was she by her love of him, that she allowed herself to be persuadedby the artful suggestions, it was whispered, of Luke Hattonthat this would be the means of accomplishing their reconciliation, and that she would be rewarded for her devotion by his returning regard.

She was not a daughter of a king or queen, but she was near to royalty, and herself as aristocratic in carriage and manner as was Oberea, who loved Captain Cook.

"Madame Tascher, who has proved herself to be your true friend and relative, has just had her first interview with the Duke of Dalberg, the member of the provisional government.

That type of mother love is to be encountered every day, and that type of mother believes herself to be the most devoted creature on earth; while the fact is, she sits for ever in the boudoir of her mentality, gazing at her own reflection.

For although Dr. Mary Arkroyd was, and knew herself to be, no dazzling genius at her professionin moments of candor she would speak of having "scraped through" her qualifying examinationsshe had a high opinion of her own common sense and her power of guiding weaker mortals.

She had proud little manners, as if she knew herself to be a daughter of the chief's favorite, obeying only the officers and treating Michel with an amusing scorn.

Finally, she believed herself to be the object of an attempt at encirclement by France, England, and Russia, and was anxious to show that the gesture of putting her hand to the sword was enough to dispel the illusions of her adversaries."

She had had some conversations with Freddy on the subject, and she had assured him, and at the same time herself, that what she was doing was the only thing that could be done.

Mrs. Daniel had seen Mrs. Bolton, and had herself been witness to the fact that Mrs. Bolton had mitigated the sternness of her denial when asked to receive her son-in-law at Puritan Grange.

[Mrs. Allsop was a daughter of Mrs. Jordan, and had herself been an actress.