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.

It was fortunate that tea was at hand, to produce a lull and provide refreshment,— for they would have been hoarse and faint if they had gone on much longer.

Salt is like good-humor, and nearly every thing is better for a pinch of it.

Every house needs a grandmother in it.

The rooms were very still while the pages were softly turned and the winter sunshine crept in to touch the bright heads and serious faces with a Christmas greeting.

Fathers and mothers are too absorbed in business and housekeeping to study their children, and cherish that sweet and natural confidence which is a child's surest safeguard, and a parent's subtlest power.

November is the most disagreeable month in the whole year.