36 Quotes About North-and-south

There was a filmy veil of soft dull mist obscuring, but not hiding, all objects, giving them a lilac hue, for the sun had not yet fully set; a robin was singing ... The leaves were more gorgeous than ever; the first touch of frost would lay them all low to the ground. Already one or two kept constantly floating down, amber and golden in the low slanting sun-rays.

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 he would fight his way out into the serenity of middle age,-all the richer and more human for having known this great passion.

God is just, and our lots are well portioned out by Him, although none, but He knows the bitterness of our souls.

The more it rains and blows, the more certain we are to have him.

Dixon was not unconscious of this awed reverence which was given to her; nor did she dislike it; it flattered her as much as Louis the Fourteenth was flattered by his courtiers shading their eyes from the dazzling light of his presence.

Your poor mother's fond wish, gratified at last in the mocking way in which over-fond wished are too often fulfilled.

He swallowed down the dry choking sobs which had been heaving up from his heart hitherto ...

I only mean, Bessy, there's good and bad in everything in this world; and as you felt the bad up here, I thought it was but fair you should know the bad down there.

So much was understood through eyes that could not be put into words.