Here, my man, just hold it this way, while I look into it a bit, he said one day to Fitz G., putting a wounded arm into the keeping of a sound one, and proceeding to poke about among bits of bone and...
Constant complaints were being made of incompetent attendants, and some dozen women did double duty, and then were blamed for breaking down. If any hospital director fancies this a good and economical...
Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents,
I rather miss my wild girl; but if I get a strong, helpful, tender-hearted woman in her place, I shall feel quite satisfied.
You laugh at me when I say I want to be a lady, but I mean a true gentlewoman in mind and manners, and I try to do it as far as I know how. I can't explain exactly, but I want to be above the little m...
Better lose your life than your soul…
…she'll go and fall in love, and there's an end of peace and fun, and cozy times together.
In The GarretFour little chests all in a row,Dim with dust, and worn by time,All fashioned and filled, long ago,By children now in their prime.Four little keys hung side by side,With faded ribbons, br...
If you feel your value lies in being merely decorative, I fear that someday you might find yourself believing that’s all that you really are. Time erodes all such beauty, but what it cannot diminish i...
I don't think secrets agree with me, I feel rumpled up in mind since you told me that…
Gentlemen, be courteous to the old maids, no matter how poor and plain and prim, for the only chivalry worth having is that which is the readiest to to pay deference to the old, protect the feeble, an...
It’s bad enough to be a girl, anyway, when I like boys’ games and work and manners!
El amor expulsa al miedo y la gratitud doblega al orgullo.
Some people seemed to get all sunshine, and some all shadow…
El mundo esta lleno de mujeres como Beth, timidas y tranquilas, que aguardan sentadas en un rincon hasta que alguien las necesita, que se entregan a los demas con tanta alegria que nadie ve su sacrifi...
Have regular hours for work and play make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few...
The sincere wish to be good is half the battle.
The clocks were striking midnight and the rooms were very still as a figure glided quietly from bed to bed, smoothing a coverlid here, settling a pillow there, and pausing to look long and tenderly at...
Six weeks is a long time to wait, and a still longer time for a girl to keep a secret…
CASTLES IN THE AIR Laurie