“It means that you two, precious father and son, would be a pair of knaves if you had sense enough; but, failing in that, you are only a pair of fools!” — E.D.E.N. Southworth Copy Share Image
“gentle admonition." "Gentle admonition! Do you call that gentle admonition? Why, uncle, you are enough to frighten most people to death with your fury. You are a perfect dragon! a griffin! a Russian bear! a Bengal tiger! a Numidian lion! You're all Barnum's beasts in one! I declare, if I don't write and ask him to send a party down… — E.D.E.N. Southworth Copy Share
“And no sooner had Cap been commanded, if she valued her safety, not to cross the water or climb the precipice than, as a… — E.D.E.N. Southworth Copy Share Image
“Go! Go! Go! Go!' said that officer, with an expression as though he considered our Cap an individual of the animal kingdom whom neither… — E.D.E.N. Southworth Copy Share Image
“It was your destiny - let us hope it will prove a glorious one.” — E.D.E.N. Southworth Copy Share Image
“There is not such a man as the doctor appears in this world more than once in a hundred years.” — E.D.E.N. Southworth Copy Share Image
“I wonder how long they'll keep me here? Forever, I hope. Until I get cured. I hope they won't cure me; I vow I… — E.D.E.N. Southworth Copy Share Image
“The stirring incidents of the last few months had spoiled her; the monotony of the last few weeks had bored her; and now she… — E.D.E.N. Southworth Copy Share Image
“Things difficult - almost to impossibility - can always be accomplished. Write that upon your tablets, for it is a valuable truth.” — E.D.E.N. Southworth Copy Share Image
“She loved old houses and old legends well enough to enjoy them; but was not sufficiently credulous to believe, or cowardly to fear, them.” — E.D.E.N. Southworth Copy Share Image
“The priest then turning toward the bride, inquired: "Wilt thou have this man to be thy wedded husband, etc., etc., so long as ye both shall live?" To which the bride, throwing aside her veil, answered, firmly: "No! Not if he were the last man and I the last woman on the face of the earth and the human race… — E.D.E.N. Southworth Copy Share
