Really, for a man who had been out of practice for so many years it was a splendid laugh!

The meagre lighthouse all in white, haunting the seaboard, as if it were the ghost of an edifice that had once had colour and rotundity, dripped melancholy tears after its late buffeting by the waves.

Her heart-is given him, with all its love and truth. She would joyfully die with him, or, better than that, die for him. She knows he has failings, but she thinks they have grown up through his being like one cast away, for the want of something to trust in, and care for, and think well of.

Skewered through and through with office-pens, and bound hand and foot with red tape.

Tongue; well that's a wery good thing when it an't a woman.

You have no idea what it is to have anybody wonderful fond of you, unless you have been got down and rolled upon by the lonely feelings that I have mentioned as having once got the better of me.

I was a blacksmith's boy but yesterday; I am - what shall I say I am today?