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- Loyalty and obedience to wisdom and justice are fine; but it is still finer to defy arbitrary power, unjustly and cruelly used--not on behalf of…
- I do try to say, God’s will be done, sir,” said the Squire, looking up at Mr. Gibson for the first time, and speaking with…
- One word more. You look as if you thought it tainted you to be loved by me. You cannot avoid it. Nay, I, if I…
- He came up straight to her father, whose hands he took and wrung without a word - holding them in his for a minute or…
- And so she shuddered away from the threat of his enduring love. What did he mean? Had she not the power to daunt him? She…
- Every mile was redolent of associations, which she would not have missed for the world, but each of which made her cry upon 'the days…
- I am the mother that bore you, and your sorrow is my agony; and if you don't hate her, i do' Then, mother, you make…
- When oranges came in, a curious proceeding was gone through. Miss Jenkyns did not like to cut the fruit, for, as she observed, the juice…
- It was her brother,' said Mr. Thornton to himself. 'I am glad.I may never see her again; but it is comfort-a relief-to know that much.…
- 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…
- God has made us so that we must be mutually dependent. We may ignore our own dependence, or refuse to acknowledge that others depend upon…
- She had a bracelet on one taper arm, which would fall down over her round wrist. Mr. Thornton watched the replacing of this troublesome ornament…
- Again, stepping nearer, he besought her with another tremulous eager call upon her name. 'Margaret!' Still lower went the head; more closely hidden was the…
- If Mr. Thornton was a fool in the morning, as he assured himself at least twenty times he was, he did not grow much wiser…
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