Now we are expected to be as wise as men who have had generations of all the help there is, and we scarcely anything.

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations.

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

books have been my greatest comfort, castle-building a never-failing delight, and scribbling a very profitable amusement.

So she doesn't call desertion, poverty, and hard work troubles? She's a brave little girl, and I shall be proud to know her.

Money is a needful and precious thing

Back to him she would never go, but in her lonely life still lived the sweet memory of that happy time when she believed in him and he was all in all to her.