The fact is, if you should put Polly on a desert island, the bees and the butterflies and the birds would gather about her; she draws everything and everybody to her magically.

Then, too, she is not penniless.
Rents are low, and she cannot hope to get quite as much for the house as before, but even counting repairs, taxes, and furnishings, we think she is reasonably certain of fifty dollars a month." "She will never be idle, unless this sorrow makes a great change in her.

Polly seems to have been created to 'become' by 'doing.'" "Yet she does not in the least relish work, Edgar.

I never knew a girl with a greater appetite for luxury.

One cannot always see the deepest reasons in God's providence as applied to one's own life and character; but it is often easy to understand them as one looks at other people and notes their growth and development.