The fever was (as it usually is in Manchester) of a low, putrid, typhoid kind; brought on by miserable living, filthy neighbourhood, and great depression of mind and body. It is virulent, malignant, a...
Some of my greatest difficulties lie in things that would appear to you comparatively trivial. I find it so hard to repel the rude familiarity of children. I find it so difficult to ask either servant...
So little do we know of the inner truths of the households, where we come and go like intimate guests!) Maggie
No, pussy!’ said I, ‘if you have any conscience you ought not to expect that!
My theory is a sort of parody on the maxim of Get money, my son, honestly if you can; but get money. My precept is, Do something, my sister, do good if you can; but, at any rate, do something.
Mr Thornton sighed as he took in all this with one of his sudden comprehensive glances. And then he turned his back to the young ladies, and threw himself, with an effort, but with all his heart and s...
Miserably disturbed!' that is not strong enough. He was haunted by the remembrance of the handsome young man, with whom she stood in an attitude of such familiar confidence; and the remembrance shot t...
Margaret could not help her looks; but the short curled upperlip, the round, massive up-turned chin, the manner of carryingher head, her movements, full of a soft feminine defiance, alwaysgave strange...
It’s the only way working men can get their rights, by all joining together. More the members, more chance for each one separate man having justice done him.
If you live in Milton, you must learn to have a brave heart, Miss Hale.’‘I would do my best,’ said Margaret rather pale. ‘I do not knowwhether I am brave or not till I am tried; but I am afraid Ishoul...
I think that if advice is good it's the best comfort.
I think I will never sit down to play again!
I tell you it's the poor, and the poor only, as does such things for the poor. Don't think to come over me with th' old tale, that the rich know nothing of the trials of the poor; I say, if they don't...
I should have hoped to have trained him, my lady, to understand the rules of discretion.Trained! Train a barn-door fowl to be a pheasant, Mr. Horner! That would be the easier task. But you did right t...
I don’t mean to deny that men are troublesome in a house. I don’t judge from my own experience, for my father was neatness itself, and wiped his shoes on coming in as carefully as any woman; but stil...
I could wish there were a God, if it were only to ask him to bless thee.
For we have every one of us felt how a very few minutes of the months and years called life, will sometimes suffice to place all time past and future in an entirely new light; will make us see the van...
Death was as true and as common as poverty; yet people never spoke about that, loud out in the streets. It was a word not to be mentioned to ears polite.
By and by they'll find out, tyrants makes liars.
But it was no smiling matter to Margaret. She attended to what Mr. Bell was saying. Her thoughts ran upon the Idea, before entertained, but which now had assumed the strength of a conviction, that Mr....