It is not as though I had taken up the idea only yesterday.

It has been present with me, comforting me, during all my work, for the last five years.

I know all your daughter's features as though she had been my constant companion.' The lady shivered and almost trembled at this profanation of her child's name.
It was trouble to her that one so holy should ever have been thought about by one so unholy.

'Of course I do not ask for anything at present;--but will you not consult your husband as to the propriety of allowing her to make my acquaintance ?' 'I shall tell my husband, of course.' 'And will repeat to him what I say ?' 'I shall tell him,--as I should any other most wild proposition that might be made to me.

But I am quite sure that he will be very angry.' 'Angry! why should he be angry ?' 'Because----' Then she stopped.
'I do not think, Mrs.Bolton, that there can be any cause for anger.