How fair the realm Imagination opens to the view.

How fair the realm Imagination opens to the view.

How sadly things had changed since she had sat there the night after coming home! Then she had been full of hope and joy and the future had looked rosy with promise. Anne felt as if she had lived years since then, but before she went to bed there was a smile on her lips and peace in her heart. She had looked her duty courageously in the face and found it a friend--as duty ever is when we meet it frankly.

It's so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isn't it?

I suppose it was a romantic was to perish... for a mouse

I've always held that early marriage is a sure indication of second-rate goods that had to be sold in a hurry." - Martin Harris

Yes, it's beautiful,' said Gilbert, looking steadily down into Anne's uplifted face, 'but wouldn't it have been more beautiful still, Anne, if there had been no separation or misunderstanding . . . if they had come hand in hand all the way through life, with no memories behind them but those which belonged to each other?