The answer, of course, in the mouth of a Christian teacher is that in Christianity alone is there both present joy and future hope.

It became plain very soon after our marriage that ours was to be a literary partnership.

I loved nearly all my teachers; but it was not till I went home to live at Oxford, in 1867, that I awoke intellectually to a hundred interests and influences that begin much earlier nowadays to affect any clever child.

English girls' schools today providing the higher education are, so far as my knowledge goes, worthily representative of that astonishing rise in the intellectual standards of women which has taken place in the last half-century.

So as the years draw on toward the Biblical limit, the inclination to look back, and to tell some sort of story of what one has seen, grows upon most of us.

The answer, of course, in the mouth of a Christian teacher is that in Christianity alone is there both present joy and future hope.

My grandmother made her home at Fox How under the shelter of the fells, with her four daughters, the youngest of whom was only eight when their father died.