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If Molly had not been so entirely loyal to her friend, she might havethought this constant brilliancy a little tiresome when brought intoevery-day lif...more

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God is just, and our lots are well portioned out by Him, although none, but He knows the bitterness of our souls.

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My father once made us," she began, "keep a diary, in two columns; on one side we were to put down in the morning what we thought would be the course ...more

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The more it rains and blows, the more certain we are to have him.

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Well, He had known what love was-a sharp pang, a fierce experience, in the midst of whose flames he was struggling! but, through that furnace he would...more

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There was a filmy veil of soft dull mist obscuring, but not hiding, all objects, giving them a lilac hue, for the sun had not yet fully set; a robin w...more

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No one loves me, - no one cares for me, but you, mother.

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The distant sea, lapping the sandy shore with measured sound; the nearer cries of the donkey-boys; the unusual scenes moving before her like pictures,...more

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He spoke as if the answer were a matter of indifference to him. But it was not so. For all his pain, he longed to see the author of it. Although he ha...more

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He came up straight to her father, whose hands he took and wrung without a word - holding them in his for a minute or two, during which time his face,...more

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He almost said to himself that he did not like her, before their conversation ended; he tried so hard to compensate himself for the mortified feeling,...more

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I only mean, Bessy, there's good and bad in everything in this world; and as you felt the bad up here, I thought it was but fair you should know the b...more