Blot your misdeeds out (if you are particularly conscientious), by a good deed, as soon as you can; just as we did a correct sum at school on the slate, where an incorrect one was only half rubbed out. It was better than wetting our sponge with our tears; both less loss of time where tears had to be waited for, and a better effect at last.

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

Margaret had always dreaded lest her courage should fail her in any emergency, and she should be proved to be, what she dreaded lest she was--a coward. But now, in this real great time of reasonable fear and nearness of terror, she forgot herself, and felt only an intense sympathy--intense to painfulness--in the interests of the moment.

Similarity of opinion is not always—I think not often—needed for fullness and perfection of love.

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

Opportunities are not often wanting where inclination goes before.

In all disappointments sympathy is a great balm.