1 You mean you must become a part of me.
2 Pardon the seeming paradox; I mean what I say.
3 An unsmiling, a searching, a meaning gaze it was.
4 I established one for boys: I mean now to open a second school for girls.
5 I mean, that human affections and sympathies have a most powerful hold on you.
6 Happily I do not mean to harm it: but, if I did, it would not take harm from me.
7 His eye wandered, and had no meaning in its wandering: this gave him an odd look, such as I never remembered to have seen.
8 You are not really shocked: for, with your superior mind, you cannot be either so dull or so conceited as to misunderstand my meaning.
9 I was a precocious actress in her eyes; she sincerely looked on me as a compound of virulent passions, mean spirit, and dangerous duplicity.
10 For when I say that I am of his kind, I do not mean that I have his force to influence, and his spell to attract; I mean only that I have certain tastes and feelings in common with him.
11 Both by nature and principle, he was superior to the mean gratification of vengeance: he had forgiven me for saying I scorned him and his love, but he had not forgotten the words; and as long as he and I lived he never would forget them.
12 Two thin hands, joined under the forehead, and supporting it, drew up before the lower features a sable veil, a brow quite bloodless, white as bone, and an eye hollow and fixed, blank of meaning but for the glassiness of despair, alone were visible.