Margaret found that the indifferent, careless conversations of one who, however kind, was not too warm and anxious a sympathizer, did her good.
Let us alone, little woman. We understand each other, don't we, doctor? Why, bless your life, he gives me better than he gets many a time; only, you see, he sugars it over, and says a sharp thing, and...
…I have never seen mountains before, and they fill me and oppress me so much that I could not sleep; I must keep awake this first night, and see that they don’t fall on the earth and overwhelm it. [-...
It was towards the end of February, in that year, and a bitter black frost had lasted for many weeks. The keen east wind had long since swept the streets clean, though in a gusty day the dust would ri...
It might, or it might not. There's two opinons to go settling that point. But suppose it was truth double strong, it were no truth to me if I couldna take it in. I daresay there's truth in yon Latin b...
The prospect of soon losing her companion seemed to give force to every sweet quality and charm which Edith possessed.
A little credulity helps one on through life very smoothly — better than always doubting and doubting and seeing difficulties and disagreeables in everything.
They did not speak much more, but thridded their way through many a bosky dell, whose soft green influence could not charm away the shock and the pain in Margaret's heart, caused by the recital of suc...
But Margaret went less abroad, among machinery and men; saw less of power in its public effect, and, as it happened, she was thrown with one or two of those who, in all measures affecting masses of pe...
A child should be brought up with its parents, if it is to think them infallible when it grows up.But though it may know that there must be faults, replied Molly, it ought to cover them over and try t...
When God gives a blessing to be enjoyed, He gives it with a duty to be done.
Both were not mental but physical illnesses. She was well aware of this, and would ask how that mended matters, as the feeling was there all the same, and was not removed by knowing the cause. She had...
He might despise her, but the woman whom he had once loved should be kept from shame; and
I had such a mother as few are blest with; a woman of strong power, and firm resolve.
Oh dear! how she could have loved him if he had but been different,
Pray, speak, sir; to see your face, and not be able to read it, gives me a worse dread than I trust any words of yours will justify.
I could wish there were a God, if it were only to ask him to bless thee.
They were a motley assembly, each with some cause for anxiety stirring at his heart; though, after all, that is saying little or nothing, for we are all of us in the same predicament through life; eac...
When prayers were ended, and his Mother had wished him good-night with that long steady look of hers which conveyed no expression of the tenderness that was in her heart, but yet had all the intensity...
He thought that I was helpless, because he saw me lonely and poor; but are not the armies of Heaven for the like of me?
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