He came up straight to her father, whose hands he took and wrung without a word - holding them in his for a minute or two, during which time his face, his eyes, his look, told of more sympathy than could be put into words.

Of all faults the one she most despised in others was the want of bravery; the meanness of heart which leads to untruth.

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.

There was a filmy veil of soft dull mist obscuring, but not hiding, all objects, giving them a lilac hue, for the sun had not yet fully set; a robin was singing ... The leaves were more gorgeous than ever; the first touch of frost would lay them all low to the ground. Already one or two kept constantly floating down, amber and golden in the low slanting sun-rays.

A girl in love will do a good deal.

I take it that 'gentleman' is a term that only describes a person in his relation to others; but when we speak of him as 'a man,' we consider him not merely with regard to his fellow-men, but in relation to himself,--to life--to time--to eternity.

Margaret was not a ready lover, but where she loved she loved passionately, and with no small degree of jealousy.