She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she was not wise yet.

Teach us almighty father, to consider this solemn truth, as we should do, that we may feel the importance of every day, and every hour as it passes.

To be sure you know no actual good of me, but nobody thinks of that when they fall in love.

There is a quickness of perception in some, a nicety in the discernment of character, a natural penetration, in short, which no experience in others can equal.

She was sensible and clever, but eager in everything; her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation.

She went, however, and they sauntered about together many a half hour in Mr. Grant's shrubbery, the weather being unusually mild for the time of year, and venturing sometimes even to sit down on one of the benches now comparatively unsheltered, remaining there perhaps till, in the midst of some tender ejaculation of Fanny's on the sweets of so protracted an autumn, they were forced by the sudden swell of a cold gust shaking down the last few yellow leaves about them, to jump up and walk for warmth.

Now they were as strangers; nay worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted.