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.
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
The morning brought more peace if it did not entirely dissipate fear.
My father once made us, she began, keep a diary, in two columns; on one side we were to put down in the morning what we thought would be the course and events of the coming day, and at night we were t...
MRS. BROWNING.
How am I to dress up in my finery, and go off and away to smart parties, after the sorrow I have seen today?
Errands of mercy--errands of sin--did you ever think where all the thousands of people you daily meet are bound?
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...
A wise parent humors the desire for independent action so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.
If he dies, why, perhaps, God of His mercy will take me too. The grave is a sure cure for an aching heart! She sank back in her chair, quite exhausted by the sudden effort she had made; but if they ev...
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.
Perhaps this very evening, if it rises in my heart; perhaps never. It’s a fear that sometimes I can’t abide to think about, and sometimes I don’t like to think on anything else. Well, I was fretting a...
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....
Margaret la Anglicana, su padre el Disidente y Higgins el Infiel se arrodillaron juntos. No les hizo daño.
Love me as I am, sweet one, for I shall never be better.
It is the first changes among familiar things that make such a mystery of time to the young, afterwards we lose the sense of the mysterious.