Your husband this morning! Mine tonight! What do you take him for?' 'A man' smiled Cynthia. 'And therefore, if you won't let me call him changeable, I'll coin a word and call him consolable.

Were all men equal to-night, some would get the start by rising an hour earlier to-morrow.

..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.

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

But Mr. Hale resolved that he would not be disturbed by any such nonsensical idea; so he lay awake, determining not to think about it.

On some such night as this she remembered promising to herself to live as brave and noble a life as any heroine she ever read or heard of in romance, a life sans peur et sans reproche; it had seemed to her then that she had only to will, and such a life would be accomplished. And now she had learnt that not only to will, but also to pray, was a necessary condition in the truly heroic. Trusting to herself, she had fallen.

I could wish there were a God, if it were only to ask him to bless thee.