Thinking more of others' happiness than of her own was very fine; but did it not mean giving up her very individuality, quenching all the warm love, the true desires, that made her herself? Yet in this deadness lay her only comfort; so it seemed.
Elizabeth Gaskell
She never called her son by any name but John; 'love' and 'dear', and such like terms, were reserved for Fanny.
names mothers sons funny-and-random
Margaret liked this smile; it was the first thing she had admired in this new friend of her father's; and the opposition of character, shown in all these details of appearance she had just been noticing, seemed to explain the attraction they evidently felt towards each other.
appearance smile attraction
In a few minutes tea was brought. Very delicate was the china, very old the plate, very thin the bread-and-butter, and very small the lumps of sugar. Sugar was evidently Mrs. Jamieson's favourite economy.
tea
She stood by the tea-table in a light-coloured muslin gown, which had a good deal of pink about it. She looked as if she was not attending to the conversation, but solely busy with the tea-cups, among which her round ivory hands moved with pretty, noiseless, daintiness.
tea pretty
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 us in more respects than the payment of weekly wages; but the thing must be, nevertheless. Neither you nor any other master can help yourselves. The most proudly independent man depends on those around him for their insensible influence on his character - his life.
thought-provoking dependence
She had a fierce pleasure in the idea of telling Margaret unwelcome truths, in the shape of performance of duty.
duty
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 would see. It was more daring than became a man to threaten her.
unrequited-love
He could remember all about it now; the pitiful figure he must have cut; the absurd way in which he had gone and done the very thing he had so often agreed with himself in thinking would be the most foolish thing in the world; and had met with exactly the consequences which, in these wise moods, he had always foretold were certain to follow, if he ever did make such a fool of himself.
Economy was always elegant, and money-spending always vulgar and ostentatious; a sort of sour-grapeism, which made us very peaceful and satisfied.
money
To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!
man
happiness
A wise parent humours the desire for independent action, so as to become the friend and adviser when his absolute rule shall cease.
rules action
Were all men equal to-night, some would get the start by rising an hour earlier to-morrow.
men
It is odd enough to see how the entrance of a person of the opposite sex into an assemblage of either men or women calms down the little discordances and the disturbance of mood.
women men
Trust a girl of sixteen for knowing well if she is pretty; concerning her plainness she may be ignorant.
trust
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