In secret pleasure — secret tears This changeful life has slipped away

If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.

I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.

Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.

He had been content with daily labour and rough animal enjoyments, 'till Catherine crossed his path. Shame at her scorn, and hope of her approval, were his first prompts to higher pursuits; and, instead of guarding him from one and winning him to the other, his endeavors to raise himself had produced just the contrary result.

She went of her own accord,' answered the master; 'she has a right to go if she please. Trouble me no more about her. Hereafter she is only me sister in name: not because I disown her, but because she has disowned me.

And from the midst of cheerless gloom I passed to bright unclouded day.