North and South has both met and made kind o' friends in this big smoky place.
My precept is, Do something, my sister, do good if you can; but, at any rate, do something.
I know we differ in our religious opinions; but don't you give me credit for having some, though not the same as yours?
I daresay it seems foolish; perhaps all our earthly trials will appear foolish to us after a while; perhaps they seem so now to angels. But we are ourselves, you know, and this is now, not some time t...
For we have everyone 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...
Edith was in the mood to think that any pleasure enjoyed away from her was a tacit affront, or at best a proof of indifference.
With a bound, the sun of a molten fiery red cam above the horizon, and immediately thousands of little birds sang out for joy, and a soft chorus of mysterious, glad murmurs came forth from the earth;...
They had grown up together from childhood, and all along Edith had been remarked upon by every one, except Margaret, for her prettiness;
Somehow, I cannot forgive her for her neglect of me as a child, when I would have clung to her.
No tenemos derecho a comparar el valor de una vida humana con otra.
Don’t be afraid, she said, coldly, as far as love may go she may be worthy of you. It must have taken a good deal to overcome her pride. Don’t be afraid, John.
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 book on your shelves; but it's gibberish and no truth to me, unless I know...
When oranges came in, a curious proceeding was gone through. Miss Jenkyns did not like to cut the fruit, for, as she observed, the juice all ran out nobody knew where, sucking [only I think she used s...
What do you expect—not indifference or ingratitude?’ (-Miss Benson) ‘It is better not to expect or calculate consequences. The longer I live, the more fully I see that. Let us try simply to do right a...
Unos instantes pueden cambiar nuestra forma de ser para toda la vida y
The morning brought more peace if it did not entirely dissipate fear.
Now, the error which many parents commit in the treatment of the individual at this time(adolescense) is, insisting on the same unreasoning obedience as when all he had to do in the way of duty was, t...
March brought the news of Frederick's marriage. He and Dolores wrote; she in Spanish-English, as was but natural, and he with little turns and inversions of words which proved how far the idioms of hi...
I don't know that you would ever like him, or think him agreeable, Margaret. He is not a lady's man.' Margaret wreathed her throat in a scornful curve.
How shall I ever tell Aunt Shaw?' she whispered, after some time of delicious silence. 'Let me speak to her.' 'Oh, no! I owe it to her, - but what will she say?' 'I can guess. Her first exclamation wi...