She had already begun to sigh for the glories of a literary career. A career of some kind,--sufficient to repay her for the sufferings of her early life,--she certainly desired. "Dear cousin Roger," as she called him, had not seemed to her to have much power of assisting her in these views. 
She had already begun to sigh for a literary career, and "Dear cousin Roger," as she called him, could not assist her. 