My precept is, Do something, my sister, do good if you can; but, at any rate, do something.
No tenemos derecho a comparar el valor de una vida humana con otra.
The ladies of Cranford always dressed with chaste elegance and propriety...
He almost said to himself that he did not like her, before their conversation ended; he tried so hard to compensate himself for the mortified feeling, that while he looked upon her with an admiration...
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...
For if she had two characteristics in her natural state of health, they were a facility of eating and sleeping. If she could neither eat nor sleep, she must be indeed out of spirits and out of Health.
Mr. Thorton love Margaret! Why, Margraret would never think of him, I'm sure! Such a thing has never entered her head. Entering her heart would do.
Unos instantes pueden cambiar nuestra forma de ser para toda la vida y
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.
They had grown up together from childhood, and all along Edith had been remarked upon by every one, except Margaret, for her prettiness;
Margaret's attention was thus called to her host; his whole manner as master of the house, and entertainer of his friends, was so straightforward, yet simple and modest, as to be thoroughly dignified....
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...
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...
He had tenderness in his heart — ‘a soft place,’ as Nicholas Higgins called it; but he had some pride in concealing it; he kept it very sacred and safe, and was jealous of every circumstance that trie...
Somehow, I cannot forgive her for her neglect of me as a child, when I would have clung to her.
Nevertheless, his moustachios are splendid.
I grieve to say that I possess no portrait of either of my sisters.
How was it that he haunted her imagination so persistently? What could it be? Why did she care for what he thought, in spite of all her pride in spite of herself? She believed that she could have born...
She continued her own studies, principally attending to German, and to Literature; and every Sunday she went alone to the German and English chapels. Her walks too were solitary, and principally taken...
If I had any prejudices, the gift of such delicious fruit as this would melt them all away.
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