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

The French girls would tell you, to believe that you were pretty would make you so.

Margaret liked this smile; it was the first thing she had admired in this new friend of her father's; and the opposition of character, shown in all these details of appearance she had just been noticing, seemed to explain the attraction they evidently felt towards each other.

Really it is very wholesome exercise, this trying to make one's words represent one's thoughts, instead of merely looking to their effect on others.

I wanted to see the place where Margaret grew to what she is, even at the worst time of all, when I had no hope of ever calling her mine.

In all disappointments sympathy is a great balm.

A great matter calls her son with terms like deal, and love.