I'd have a stable full of Arabian steeds, rooms piled with books, and I'd write out of a magic inkstand, so that my works should be as famous as Laurie's music. I want to do something splendid before I go into my castle,-something heroic, or wonderful,-that won't be forgotten after I'm dead. I don't know what, but I'm on the watch for it, and mean to astonish you all, some day. I think I shall write books, and get rich and famous; that would suit me, so that is my favorite dream.

All the worse for the undeniable talent which hides the evil so subtly and makes the danger so delightful.

Dear me! how happy and good we'd be, if we had no worries!

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

In the midst of her tears came the thought, "When people are in danger, they ask God to save them;" and, slipping down upon her knees, she said her prayer as she had never said it before, for when human help seems gone we turn to Him as naturally as lost children cry to their father, and feel sure that he will hear and answer them.

She fell into the moody, miserable state of mind which often comes when strong wills have to yield to the inevitable.

Some people seemed to get all sunshine, and some all shadow.