"This is the story of what a Woman's patience can endure, and what a Man's resolution can achieve." The First Epoch: The Story begun by Walter Hartright, Part I, p. 9.

"But the idea of absolute insanity which we all associate with the very name of Asylum, had, I can honestly declare, never occurred to me, in connexion with her. I had seen nothing, in her language or actions, to justify it at the time; and, even with the new light thrown on her by the words with the stranger addressed to the policeman, I could see nothing to justify it now." The First Epoch: The Story begun by Walter Hartright, Part V, p. 32.

"Upon the whole, he had a frail, languidly-fretful, over-refined look—something singularly and unpleasantly delicate in its association with a man, and, at the same time, something which could by no possibility have looked...