You are the gull, Jo, strong and wild, fond of the storm and the wind, flying far out to sea, and happy all alone.

The young people were playing that still more absorbing game in which hearts are always trumps.

My book came out; and people began to think that topsy-turvy Louisa would amount to something after all.

Love is a flower that grows in any soil, works its sweet miracles undaunted by autumn frost or winter snow, blooming fair and fragrant all the year, and blessing those who give and those who receive.

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.

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.

I wish I had no heart, it aches so.