If I wrote at all, I must throw myself headlong into the great political maelstrom, and would of course be swallowed up like a fis...hing-boat in the great Norway horror which decorated our school geographies; for no woman had ever done such a thing, and I could never again hold up my head under the burden of shame and disgrace which would be heaped upon me. But what matter? I had no children to dishonor; all save one who had ever loved me were dead, and she no longer needed me, and if the Lord wanted some one to throw into that gulf, no one could be better spared than I.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Here, my dear Lucy, hide these books. Quick, quick! Fling "Peregrine Pickle" under the toilette--throw "Roderick Random" into the ...closet--put "The Innocent Adultery" into "The Whole Duty of Man"; thrust "Lord Aimworth" under the sofa! cram "Ovid" behind the bolster; there--put "The Man of Feeling" into your pocket. Now for them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There were none of the small deer up there; they are more common about the settlements. One ran into the city of Bangor two years ...before, and jumped through a window of costly plate glass, and then into a mirror, where it thought it recognized one of its kind.... This the inhabitants speak of as the deer that went a-shopping.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Yet some, who all this while did weep and sing, And sing and weep, soared up into the ring;... But most would use no wing. O fools, said I, thus to prefer dark night Before true light!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Do you mistake me? I am speaking of living,... of moving from one moment into the next, and into the one after, breathing death in the spring air....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »