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

In all disappointments sympathy is a great balm.

His laws once broken, His justice and the very nature of those laws bring the immutable retribution; but if we turn penitently to Him, He enables us to bear our punishment with a meek and docile heart, ‘for His mercy endureth forever.

If you dare to injure her in the least, I will await you where no policeman can step in between. And God shall judge between us two.

I dare not hope. I never was fainthearted before; but I cannot believe such a creature cares for me.

What other people may think of the rightness or wrongness is nothing in comparison to my own deep knowledge, my innate conviction that it was wrong.

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.