Men little know when they say hard things to us how well we remember them, and how much harm they do us.

Men little know when they say hard things to us how well we remember them, and how much harm they do us.

The horrid mystery hanging over us in this house gets into my head like liquor, and makes me wild.

I have heard, as everybody else has, of a spirit's haunting a house ; but I have had my own personal experience of a house's haunting a spirit.

Is there any wilderness of sand in the deserts of Arabia, is there any prospect of desolation among the ruins of Palestine, which can rival the repelling effect on the eye, and the depressing influence on the mind, of an English country town in the first stage of its existence, and in the transition state of its prosperity?

The books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill!

I am not against hasty marriages where a mutual flame is fanned by an adequate income.