No anguish I have had to bear on your account has been too heavy a price to pay for the new life into which I have entered in loving you.
Saints and martyrs had never interested Maggie so much as sages and poets.
To see an enemy humiliated gives a certain contentment, but this is jejune compared with the highly blent satisfaction of seeing him humiliated by your benevolent action of concession on his behalf. That is a sort of revenge which falls into the scal...
Tom's contemptuous conception of a girl included the attribute of being unfit to walk in dirty places.
Her future, she thought, was likely to be worse than her past, for after her years of contented renunciation, she had slipped back into desire and longing; she found joyless days of distasteful occupation harder and harder; she found the image of the...
