“If a wish could have transported her, she would have gone off; just for one day.” — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
All the earth, though it were full of kind hearts, is but a desolation and desert place to a mother when her… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
“Oh dear! how she could have loved him if he had but been different, with a difference which she felt, on reflection,… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
Mr. Thorton love Margaret! Why, Margraret would never think of him, I'm sure! Such a thing has never entered her head." "Entering… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
Come! Poor little heart! Be cheery and brave. We'll be a great deal to one another, if we are thrown off and… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
Of all faults the one she most despised in others was the want of bravery; the meanness of heart which leads to… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
“If the world was full of perplexing problems she would trust, and only ask to see the one step needful for the… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
He loved her, and would love her; and defy her, and this miserable bodily pain. — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
His laws once broken, His justice and the very nature of those laws bring the immutable retribution; but if we turn penitently… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
My heart burnt within me with indignation and grief; we could think of nothing else. All night long we had only snatches… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
“If she could have anticipated them, how she would have shrunk away and hid herself from the coming time! And yet day… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
Even before he left the room, — and certainly, not five minutes after, the clear conviction dawned upon her, shined bright upon… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
“even before he left the room,—and certainly, not five minutes after, the clear conviction dawned upon her, shined bright upon her, that… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
When prayers were ended, and his Mother had wished him good-night with that long steady look of hers which conveyed no expression… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
But with the increase of serious and just ground of complaint, a new kind of patience had sprung up in her Mother's… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
Nay, nay!” said the Squire. “It’s not so easy to break one’s heart. Sometimes I’ve wished it were. But one has to… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
It seemed as though he gave way all at once; he was so languid that he could not control his thoughts; they… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
She lay down and never stirred. To move hand or foot, or even so much as one finger, would have been an… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
“All the morning since he got up he had been trying to fight through his duties—leaning against a hope—a hope that first… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
“Looking back upon the year's accumulated heap of troubles, Margaret wondered how they had been borne. If she could have anticipated them,… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
Mr Thornton would rather have heard that she was suffering the natural sorrow. In the first place, there was selfishness enough in… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
He almost said to himself that he did not like her, before their conversation ended; he tried so hard to compensate himself… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
He had tenderness in his heart — ‘a soft place,’ as Nicholas Higgins called it; but he had some pride in concealing… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
...yet, even before he left the room, - and certainly, not five minutes after, the clear conviction dawned upon her, shined bright… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
Margaret found that the indifferent, careless conversations of one who, however kind, was not too warm and anxious a sympathizer, did her… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
Every mile was redolent of associations, which she would not have missed for the world, but each of which made her cry… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
And so she shuddered away from the threat of his enduring love. What did he mean? Had she not the power to… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
“A sense of change, of individual nothingness, of perplexity and disappointment, overpowered Margaret. Nothing had been the same; and this slight, all-pervading… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
“But she had learnt, in those solemn hours of thought, that she herself must one day answer for her own life, and… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
“She continued her own studies, principally attending to German, and to Literature; and every Sunday she went alone to the German and… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
“Osborne and Roger knowing that the wife of the former was a Frenchwoman, and, conscious of each other's knowledge, felt doubly awkward; while Molly… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share
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… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share
But Margaret went less abroad, among machinery and men; saw less of power in its public effect, and, as it happened, she was thrown… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share
“And besides, in the matter of friendship, I have observed that the disappointment here arises chiefly, not from liking our friends too well, or… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share
What other people may think of the rightness or wrongness is nothing in comparison to my own deep knowledge, my innate conviction that it… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share
“The first question sobbed out by his choking voice, oppressed with emotion, was-- "Where is she?" They led him to the room where his… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share
Wearily she went to bed, wearily she arose in four or five hours' time. But with the morning came hope, and a brighter view… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share
I won't say she was silly, but I think one of us was silly, and it wasn't me. — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share
Mr. Thorton love Margaret! Why, Margraret would never think of him, I'm sure! Such a thing has never entered her head." "Entering her heart… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share
“He never looked at her; and yet, the careful avoidance of his eyes betokened that in some way he knew exactly where, if they… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share
“Ay! but mother's words are scarce, and weigh heavy. Father's liker me, and we talk a deal o' rubble; but mother's words are liker… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share
Margaret liked this smile; it was the first thing she had admired in this new friend of her father's; and the opposition of character,… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share
Don’t be afraid,” she said, coldly, “ as far as love may go she may be worthy of you. It must have taken a… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share
