“The two sisters were excited by this style of conversation. It had never come into their minds to analyze life. They took it as it came, and to them it came happily; and the idea that a young prosperous handsome… — Emily Eden Copy Share Image
“Oh dear! how unamiable I am when I am with my uncle and aunt," thought Rachel, "thoroughly detestable I may say, and yet when… — Emily Eden Copy Share Image
“What! another love story? My dear Blanche, I hope you are not going to turn into a match-maker; of all the dangerous manufactories in… — Emily Eden Copy Share Image
“What am I to give the housemaids here? and do you object to my reading novels, if Lady Eskdale says there is no harm… — Emily Eden Copy Share Image
“Now, my dear Mr. Douglas, don't go off on those tiresome foreign affairs. What can it signify which conquers which, or who dethrones who,… — Emily Eden Copy Share Image
“Oh! where is Truth? am I never to find it? I can bear artifice in the frivolities and gauds of the world–it is all… — Emily Eden Copy Share Image
I like a good murder that can't be found out. That is, of course it is very shocking, but I like to hear about… — Emily Eden Copy Share Image
“The girls were full of pity and admiration, and affirmed that when their mother understood Rachel a little better she would like her. "My… — Emily Eden Copy Share Image
“Thirty morning gowns!" whispered Sarah, as they went down stairs. "The idea of a new gown every day for a month. Now I call… — Emily Eden Copy Share Image
Why is it that fools always have the instinct to hunt out the unpleasant secrets of life, and the hardiness to mention them? — Emily Eden Copy Share Image
“Mrs. Douglas could hardly do less than make a very great grievance of what was intended as a kindness. She hated a wedding; it… — Emily Eden Copy Share Image
“To those who are not, like Wordsworth's primrose, "dwellers on the river's brim," it may be necessary to explain that an outrigger is an… — Emily Eden Copy Share Image
“Oh, mamma!" said Eliza, "I wish you would not say that; and I wish they would ask us constantly to their house. It is… — Emily Eden Copy Share Image
