..still to have loved her without return would have lifted you higher than all those, be they who they may, that have ever known her to love.

How am I to dress up in my finery, and go off and away to smart parties, after the sorrow I have seen today?

Did I ever say an engagement was an elephant, madam?

Nevertheless, his moustachios are splendid.

I do not look on self-indulgent, sensual people as worthy of my hatred; I simply look upon them with contempt for their poorness of character.

But the cloud never comes in that quarter of the horizon from which we watch for it.

Oh yes!' and suddenly the wintry frost-bound look of care had left Mr. Thornton's face, as if some soft summer gale had blown all anxiety away from his mind; and, though his mouth was as much compressed as before, his eyes smiled out benignly on his questioner.