Six weeks is a long time to wait, and a still longer time for a girl to keep a secret.

Elegance has a bad effect on my constitution.

Laurie felt just then that his heart was entirely broken and the world a howling wilderness.

I shall keep my book on the table here, and read a little every morning as soon as I wake, for I know it will do me good, and help me through the day.

I don't worry about the storms, I am learning to sail my own ship.

No woman should give her happiness into the keeping of a man without fixed principles.

There was a good deal of laughing and kissing and explaining, in the simple, loving fashion which makes these home-festivals so pleasant at the time, so sweet to remember long afterward, and then all fell to work.