He could not - say rather, he would not - deny himself the chance of the pleasure of seeing Margaret. He had no end in this but the present gratification.

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.

But suppose it was truth double strong, it were no truth to me if I couldna take it in. I daresay there's truth in yon Latin book on your shelves; but it's gibberish and no truth to me, unless I know the meaning o' the words.

In all disappointments sympathy is a great balm.

I know you despise me; allow me to say, it is because you don't understand me.

I daresay it seems foolish; perhaps all our earthly trials will appear foolish to us after a while; perhaps they seem so now to angels. But we are ourselves, you know, and this is now, not some time to come, a long, long way off. And we are not angels, to be comforted by seeing the ends for which everything is sent.

To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!