My heart is too thoroughly dried to be broken in a hurry, and I mean to live as long as I can.

My heart is too thoroughly dried to be broken in a hurry, and I mean to live as long as I can.

I thought Mr. Millward never would cease telling us that he was no tea-drinker, and that it was highly injurious to keep loading the stomach with slops to the exclusion of more wholesome sustenance, and so give himself time to finish his fourth cup.

No, thank you, I don't mind the rain,' I said. I always lacked common sense when taken by surprise.

She left me, offended at my want of sympathy, and thinking, no doubt, that I envied her. I did not - at least, I firmly believed I did not.

To wheedle and coax is safer than to command.

I am truly miserable - more so than I like to acknowledge to myself. Pride refuses to aid me. It has brought me into the scrape, and will not help me out of it.