I don't want any one to be grateful to me.

Gratitude is almost as offensive as pity.

Of course I pulled Kate out of the water when she fell in; and I would have done as much for your favourite cat.' He said this with something of bitterness in his tone; it was not much, for though he felt bitterly he did not intend to show it; but Mrs.Woodward's ear did not fail to catch it.
'Don't be angry with us, Charley; don't make us more unhappy than we already are.' 'Unhappy!' said he, as though he thought that all the unhappiness in the world was at the present moment reserved for his own shoulders.
'Yes, we are not so happy now as we were when you were last with us.

Poor Katie is very ill.' 'But you don't think there is any danger, Mrs.Woodward ?' There are many tones in which such a question may be asked--and is asked from day to day--all differing widely from each other, and giving evidence of various shades of feeling in the speaker.
Charley involuntarily put his whole heart into it.

Mrs.Woodward could not but love him for feeling for her child, though she would have given so much that the two might have been indifferent to each other.
'I do not know,' she said.