The+Awakening+Chapters+7-12

At a very early period she had apprehended insinctively the dual life--that outward existence which conforms, the inward life which questions. Pg. 31

Their absence was a sort of relief, though she did not admit this, even to herself. It seemed to free her of a responsibility which she had blindly assumed and for which Fate had not fitted her. Pg. 35

The sea was quiet now, and swelled lazily in broad billows that melted into one another and did not break except upon the beach in little foamy crests that coiled back like slow, white serpents. Pg. 46

But that night she was like the little tottering, stumblin, clutching child, who of a sudden realizes its poers, and walks for the first time alone, boldly and with over -confidence. Pg.46