A little roving, solitary thing.

“And with that answer, he left me. I would much rather he had knocked me down.”

“Pity, Jane, from some people is a noxious and insulting sort of tribute, which …”

“If life be a war, it seemed my destiny to conduct it single-handed.”

“That night I never thought to sleep; but a slumber fell on me as soon as I lay …”