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

Let your mind be quiet, realizing the beauty of the world, and the immense boundless treasures that it holds.

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

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

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.

Anyone who realises what Love is, the dedication of the heart, so profound, so absorbing, so mysterious, so imperative, and always just in the noblest natures so strong, cannot fail to see how difficult, how tragic even, must often be the fate of those whose deepest feelings are destined from the earliest days to be a riddle and a stumbling-block, unexplained to themselves, passed over in silence by others.

IN April 1882 my father died; and I was at once whirled out of my land of dreams into a very different sphere.