And where there had been only jeers or taunts at first, crowds came to listen with serious and sympathetic mien.

We lived within two hundred yards of the sea, and its voice was in our ears night and day.

And where there had been only jeers or taunts at first, crowds came to listen with serious and sympathetic mien.

My ideas had been taking a socialistic shape for many years; but they were lacking in definite outline.

IT is curious that, with my somewhat antinomian tendencies, I should have gone to Trinity Hall - which was, and is, before all a Law College - and should thus have been thrown into close touch with the legal element in life.

Motherhood is, after all, woman's great and incomparable work.

The other thing that happened in 1883 was my reading of Thoreau's Walden.