She disliked him more for having mastered her inner will. How dared he say that he would love her still, even though she shook him off with contempt? She wished she had spoken more - stronger. Sharp,...
The morning brought more peace if it did not entirely dissipate fear.
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.
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...
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.
North and South has both met and made kind o' friends in this big smoky place.
If I had any prejudices, the gift of such delicious fruit as this would melt them all away.
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...
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...
She handed him his cup of tea with the proud air of an unwilling slave...
He may care for her, though she really has been almost rude to him at times. But she! – why, Margaret would never think of him, I’m sure! Such a thing has never entered her head.Entering her heart wou...
Mr. Thornton, said Margaret, shaking all over with her passion, go down this instant, if you are not a coward. Go down and face them like a man. Save these poor strangers, whom you have decoyed here....
I do not want to be relieved from any obligation,' said he, goaded by her calm manner. 'Fancied, or not fancied - I question not myself to know which - I choose to believe that I owe my very life to y...
How am I to dress up in my finery, and go off and away to smart parties, after the sorrow I have seen today?
The vices of the poor sometimes astound us HERE; but when the secrets of all hearts shall be made known, their virtues will astound us in far greater degree. Of this I am certain.
It’s a long lane that has no turning, the weariest day draws to an end, etc., seemed false and vain sayings, so long and so weary was the pressure of the terrible times. Deeper and deeper still sank t...
Margaret la Anglicana, su padre el Disidente y Higgins el Infiel se arrodillaron juntos. No les hizo daño.
But, as Margaret half suspected, Edith had fallen asleep. She lay curled up on the sofa in the back drawing-room in Harley Street, looking very lovely in her white muslin and blue ribbons. If Titania...
Wedding
He came up straight to her father, whose hands he took and wrung without a word - holding them in his for a minute or two, during which time his face, his eyes, his look, told of more sympathy than co...
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