You would be the first to complain of my 'taking on' if I did, and I should not blame you.

I am only a guest here now.
But I am sure a little queen pudding is not too much to ask, in one's own father's house too.

Julius has not many fancies I am sure, but such a little thing." "Julius can have all the fancies he desires, only do please order them from Ann yourself." "Well, I never! I am sure father and mother would never oppose a little pudding that Julius fancies." Does any one imagine that such trials as these are small and insignificant?
They are the very ones that make the heart burn, and the teeth close on the lips, and the eyes fill with angry tears.

They take hope out of daily work, and sunshine out of daily life, and slay love as nothing else can slay it.

There was an evil spirit in the house,--a small, selfish, envious, malicious spirit; people were cross, and they knew not why; felt injured, and they knew not why; the days were harder than those dreadful ones when fire and candle were never out, and every one was a watcher in the shadow of death.
As the season advanced, Julius took precisely the position which Stephen had foretold he would take.