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 was one of Mrs. Hale's fitful days, when everything was a difficulty and a hardship; and Mr Lennox's appearance took this shape, although secretly she felt complimented by his thinking it worthwhil...
It was a stinging pleasure to be in the room with her, and feel her presence.
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 could wish there were a God, if it were only to ask him to bless thee.
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?
He might despise her, but the woman whom he had once loved should be kept from shame; and
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...
Did I ever say an engagement was an elephant, madam?
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.
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...
The prospect of soon losing her companion seemed to give force to every sweet quality and charm which Edith possessed.
Thou must believe that God will turn thy very silence, suspension, deprivation, and laying aside, to His glory, and the advancement of the Gospel's interest. When God will not use thee in one kind, ye...
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...
When God gives a blessing to be enjoyed, He gives it with a duty to be done.
We do not look for reason for logic in the passionate entreaties of those who are sick unto death; we are stung with the recollection of a thousand slighted opportunities of fulfilling the wishes of t...
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...
Some wishes crossed my mind and dimly cheered it, And one or two poor melancholy pleasures, Each in the pale unwarming light of hope, Silvering its flimsy wing, flew silent by— Moths in the moonbeam!'...
Oh dear! how she could have loved him if he had but been different,