Don’t take on about her, Gabriel. What difference does it make whose sweetheart she is, since she can’t be yours?”That’s the very thing I say to myself,’ said Gabriel.

The visible structure of Jane Austen’s stories may be flimsy enough; but their foundations drive deep down into the basic principles of human conduct. On her bit of ivory she has engraved a criticism of...

Don’t for God’s sake speak as saint to sinner, but as you yourself to me myself – poor me!

Let truth be told – women do as a rule live through such humiliations, and regain their spirits, and again look about them with an interested eye. While there’s life there’s hope is a connviction...

He is as good as anybody in this parish! He is very particular, too, about going to church-yes, he is!”I am afeard nobody ever saw him there. I never did, certainly.”The reason of that is,’...

But you are too lovely even to care to be kind as others are.

It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible without possession; with totally differing aims the method is the...

Meanwhile, the trees were just as green as before; the birds sang and the sun shone as clearly now as ever. The familiar surroundings had not darkened because of her grief, nor sickened because of...

Done because we are too many.

I shall be up before you are awake; I shall be afield before you are up; and I shall have breakfasted before you are afield. In short, I shall astonish you all.

He was moderately truthful towards men, but to women lied like a Cretan-a system of ethics above all others calculated to win popularity at the first flush of admission into lively society.

When the love-led man had ceased from his labors Bathsheba came and looked him in the face. ‘Gabriel, will you stay on with me?’ she said, smiling winningly, and not troubling to bring her lips...

Idiosyncrasy and vicissitude had combined to stamp Sergeant Troy as an exceptional being.

You know, mistress, that I love you, and shall love you always