Resolved to take fate by the throat and shake a living out of her.
I could have been a great many things.
The patience and the humility of the face she loved so well was a better lesson to Jo than the wisest lecture, the sharpest reproof.
...for a girl with eyes like hers has a will and is not ruled by anyone but a lover.
Rule yourself. Love your neighbor. Do the duty that lies nearest you.
He looked at her an instant, for the effect of the graceful girlish figure with pale, passionate face and dark eyes full of sorrow, pride and resolution was wonderfully enhanced by the gloom of the great room, and glimpses of a gathering storm in the red autumn sky.