To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man! — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
“If she lives, she shall be my wedded wife. If she dies--mother, I can't speak of what I shall feel if she… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
Madam your wife and I didn't hit it off the only time I ever saw her. I won't say she was silly,… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
Your husband this morning! Mine tonight! What do you take him for?' 'A man' smiled Cynthia. 'And therefore, if you won't let… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
“He had grown accustomed to his wife by this time, and regarded silence on his own part as a great preservative against… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
“The wife slept on, only roused by the cry of her child now and then, which seemed to have power over her,… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
I say Gibson, we're old friends, and you're a fool if you take anything I say as an offense. Madam your wife… — 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;… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
“Ay, I know she’s asked for credit at several places, saying her husband laid hands on every farthing he could get for… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
“I just wished to know if you mean to marry the girl. Spite of what you said of her lightness, I ha'… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
“makes me more than sad, it makes my heart burn within me, to see that folk can make a jest of striving… — 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
