She had a fierce pleasure in the idea of telling Margaret unwelcome truths, in the shape of performance of duty.

Take care. -If you do not speak- I shall claim you as my own in some presumptuous way. -Send me away at once, if I must go; -Margaret!-

All the earth, though it were full of kind hearts, is but a desolation and desert place to a mother when her only child is absent.

Opportunities are not often wanting where inclination goes before.

Oh dear! A drunken infidel weaver! said Mr. Hale to himself.

It seems strange to think, that what gives us most hope for the future should be called Dolores, said Margaret.

Margaret liked this smile; it was the first thing she had admired in this new friend of her father's; and the opposition of character, shown in all these details of appearance she had just been noticing, seemed to explain the attraction they evidently felt towards each other.