The popularity of this world is as transient as its glory...
...an offer which Mrs. Hamley received with the open arms of her heart...
But fate is a cunning hussy, and builds up her plans as imperceptibly as a bird builds her nest; and with much the same kind of unconsidered trifles.
...if advice is good it's the best comfort.
...and their greediness of details about persons.
...regarded silence on his own part as a great preservative against long inconsequential arguments.
...his conversation was not so amply sprinkled with critical pepper.
...the soothing syrup of their mother's speeches,...
She ended her sentence with another smile, but it was rather faint and watery.
Poor people acknowledge the inevitableness and the approach of death in a much more straightforward manner than is customary among the more educated.
"Patty, link thy right arm into my left one, then thou'lt be nearer to my heart";...
"A cheerful heart makes its own sunshine."
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