O vanity, mislead no more!

Mothers can forgive anything! Tell me all, and be sure that I will never let you go, though the whole world should turn from you.

At twenty-five, girls begin to talk about being old maids, but secretly resolve that they never will. At thirty, they say nothing about it, but quietly accept the fact.

Mine first --mine last-- mine even in the grave!

Every few weeks she would shut herself up in her room, put on her scribbling suit, and fall into a vortex, as she expressed it, writing away at her novel with all her heart and soul, for till that was finished she could find no peace.

Watch and pray, dear, never get tired of trying, and never think it is impossible to conquer your fault.

Poor dull Concord. Nothing colorful has come through here since the Redcoats.