Housekeeping ain't no joke.

People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays; men have to work and women to marry for money. It's a dreadfully unjust world.

... swept into the giddy vortex which keeps so many young people revolving aimlessly, till they go down or are cast upon the shore, wrecks of what they might have been

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

Mine first --mine last-- mine even in the grave!

The small hopes and plans and pleasures of children should be tenderly respected by grown-up people, and never rudely thwarted or ridiculed.

Nothing provokes speculation more than the sight of a woman enjoying herself." -