What I suffer is but the just and natural consequence of what I did.

Be patient, both for me and for yourself.

By-and-by we shall see that all is right." Hard doctrine! and only to be learnt by long endurance.

Lucia rebelled against it, but she could not argue with her mother's pale face and faintly spoken words to oppose her.

She busied herself softly in such little offices as her anxiety suggested, and they spoke no more that night of the subjects nearest to their hearts.
But when Mrs.Costello was alone, she began to think of Maurice.