Mrs. Hurtle, it will be remembered, had at last determined that she would retire from the contest and own herself to have been worsted. It is, I fear, impossible to describe adequately the various half resolutions which she formed, and the changing phases of her mind before she brought herself to this conclusion. 
Mrs. Hurtle, it will be remembered, had at last decided to retire from the contest, though not without many changing phases of her mind. 