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.
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...
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...
You may well smile, my lass; many a one would smile to have such a bonny face.
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.
She handed him his cup of tea with the proud air of an unwilling slave...
Nevertheless, his moustachios are splendid.
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....
Many a one is not well for a time; and with good advice gets better and stronger than ever.
I dare say there's many a woman makes as sad a mistake as I have done, and only finds it out too late.
His greatest comfort was in hugging his torment; and in feeling, as he had indeed said to her, that though she might despise him, contemn him, treat him with her proud sovereign indifference, he did n...
But I got through the review, for all their Latin and French; I did, and if you doubt me, you just look at the end of the great ledger, turn it upside down, and you'll find I've copied out all the fin...
Wedding
Though she knew, and we knew, and she knew that we knew, and we knew that she knew that we knew, she had been busy all the morning making tea-bread and sponge-cakes.
Yet these real, material dangers, when once past, leave in the mind the satisfaction of having struggled with difficulty, and overcome it. Strength, courage, and experience are their invariable result...
When we are heavy-laden in our hearts, it falls in better with our humor to reveal our case in our own way and our own time.
Well—I suppose we must.' FRIENDS IN COUNCIL.
Well, now, sir, I put it to yo', being a parson, and having been in th' preaching line, and having had to try and bring folk o'er to what yo' thought was a right way o' thinking—did yo' begin by calli...