You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty.

Every few weeks she would shut herself up in her room, put on her scribbling suit, and fall into a vortex, as she expressed it, writing away at her novel with all her heart and soul, for till that was finished she could find no peace.

I'm afraid I couldn't like him without a spice of human naughtiness.

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.

The female population exceeds the male, you know, especially in New England, which accounts for the high state of culture we are in, perhaps.

So she enjoyed herself heartily, and found, what isn't always the case, that her granted wish was all she had hoped.

Love is a great beautifier.