What tale do you like best to hear?' 'Oh, I have not much choice! They generally run on the same theme - courtship; and promise to end in the same catastrophe - marriage.

Well had Solomon said,'Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.

I knew, you would do me good, in some way, at some time;- I saw it in your eyes when I first beheld you: their expression and smile did not- (again he stopped)- did not (he proceeded hastily) strike delight to my very inmost heart so for nothing.

Shake me off, then, sir--push me away; for I'll not leave you of my own accord.

While I loved, and while I was loved, what an existence I enjoyed!

I know what it is to live entirely for and with what I love best on earth. I hold myself supremely blest -- blest beyond what language can express; because I am my husband's life as fully as he is mine.

Strange that grief should now almost choke me, because another human being's eye has failed to greet mine.