As if he did not feel the consciousness of her presence all over, though his eyes had never rested on her!
Somehow, I cannot forgive her for her neglect of me as a child, when I would have clung to her.
There’s but one thing steady and quiet i’ all this reeling world, and, reason or no reason, I’ll cling to that.
It is well for us that we live at the present time, when everybody is logical and consistent.
But I’m tired of this bustle. Everybody rushing over everybody, in their hurry to get rich.
A more proud, disagreeable girl I never saw. Even her great beauty is blotted out of one’s memory by her scornful ways.
Her mouth was wide; no rosebud that could only open just enough to let out a ‘yes’ and ‘no’, and ‘an’t please you, sir’.
I may be the Cinderella to put on the slipper after all.′ Margaret.
I sometimes think there’s two sides to the commandment; and that we may say, ‘Let others do unto you, as you would do unto them,’ for pride often prevents our giving others a great deal of pleasure, in not letting them be kind, when their hearts are longing to help; and when we ourselves should wish to do just the same, if we were in their place.
All beautiful scriptures came into her mind. ‘They rest from their labours.’ ‘The weary are at rest.’ ‘He giveth His beloved sleep.
Philip was somewhat of a pedant; yet there was a simplicity in his pedantry not always to be met with in those who are self-taught, and which might have interested any one who cared to know with what labour and difficulty he had acquired the knowledge which now he prized so highly;.
I don’t know – I suppose because, on the very face of it, I see two classes dependent on each other in every possible way, yet each evidently regarding the interests of the other as opposed to their own; I never lived in a place before where there were two sets of people always running each other down.
But Mrs. Gibson really meant to make Molly happy, and tried to be an agreeable companion, only Molly was not well, and was uneasy about many apprehended cares and troubles – and at such hours of indisposition as she was then passing through, apprehensions take the shape of certainties, lying await in our paths.
Sometimes people wondered that parents so handsome should have a daughter who was so far from regularly beautiful; not beautiful at all, was occasionally said.
Unos instantes pueden cambiar nuestra forma de ser para toda la vida y.
She went out, going rapidly towards the country, and trying to drown reflection by swiftness of motion.
Edith was in the mood to think that any pleasure enjoyed away from her was a tacit affront, or at best a proof of indifference.
If I had any prejudices, the gift of such delicious fruit as this would melt them all away.
Bear up, brave heart!
When we are heavy-laden in our hearts, it falls in better with our humor to reveal our case in our own way and our own time.