I came here for the chance of seeing you again, of knowing for sure there was something good and beautiful in the world to offset all the bad I'd seen.

Every page I've learned has been for you, every wrong thought I've put out of me mind has been to make more room for you.

I don't even ask ye to be my friend; I only ask to be yours, to see ye sometime, to talk to you, and to keep ye first in my heart and to serve ye to the end." The vireo had stopped singing and was swinging on a bough above them.
Ruth sat very still and looked straight before her.

She had never seen a soul laid bare before, and the sight thrilled and troubled her.

All the petty artifices which the world had taught her seemed useless before this shining candor.
"And--and you've remembered me all this time ?" she asked, with a little tremble in her voice.