To most the end comes as naturally and simply as sleep.

... because I have fallen in love with so many pretty girls and never once the least bit with any man.

…she'll go and fall in love, and there's an end of peace and fun, and cozy times together.

Many wise and true sermons are preached us everyday by unconscious ministers in street, school, office, or home; even a fair table may become a pulpit, if it can offer the good and helpful words which are never out of season.

During the fifteen minutes that followed, the proud and sensitive girl suffered a shame and pain which she never forgot. To others it might seem a ludicrous or trivial affair, but to her it was a hard experience, for during the twelve years of her life she had been governed by love alone

{Mrs. March to Jo} You are too much alike and too fond of freedom, not to mention hot tempers and strong wills, to get on happily together, in a relation which needs infinite patience and forbearance, as well as love.

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