You have grown abominably lazy, and you like gossip, and waste time on frivolous things, you are contented to be petted and admired by silly people, instead of being loved and respected by wise ones.

I am lonely, sometimes, but I dare say it's good for me.

So she enjoyed herself heartily, and found, what isn't always the case, that her granted wish was all she had hoped.

But please hug and kiss me, everyone, and don't mind my dress, I want a great many crumples of this sort put into it today.

Dear me, if men and women would only trust, understand, and help one another as my children do, what a capital place the world would be!

Oh dear, life is pretty tough sometimes, isn't it?

Love scenes, if genuine, are indescribable; for to those who have enacted them the most elaborate description seems tame, and to those who have not, the simplest picture seems overdone.