I have tried to resign myself, and to console myself; and that, I hope, I may have done imperfectly; but what I cannot firmly settle in my mind is, that the end will absolutely come. I hold her hand in mine, I hold her heart in mine, I see her love for me, alive in all its strength. I cannot shut out a pale lingering shadow of belief that she will be spared.

The night crept on apace, the moon went down, the stars grew pale and dim, and morning, cold as they, slowly approached. Then, from behind a distant hill, the noble sun rose up, driving the mists in phantom shapes before it, and clearing the earth of their ghostly forms till darkness came again.

a most excellent man, though I could have wished his trousers not quite so tight in some places and not quite so loose in others.

Never sign a valentine with your own name.

"It's nothing," returned Mrs Chick. "It's merely change of weather. We must expect change."

For not an orphan in the wide world can be so deserted as the child who is an outcast from a living parent's love.

Reflect upon your present blessings