I feel as happy as a schoolboy, at the thought of getting out of this den and this miserable climate, and of basking in the sunshine.

We have had a bad beginning, dear, but we have better days before us." "Thank God, Gregory! I have not cared about myself.

But it has been a trial, when your manuscripts have come back, to see you sitting here slaving away; and to know that it is I who have brought you to this." "I brought myself to it, you obstinate girl! I have pleased myself, haven't I?
If a man chooses a path for himself, he must not grumble because he finds it rather rougher than he expected.

I have never, for a single moment, regretted what I have done; at any rate, as far as I, myself, am concerned." "Nor I, for my own sake, dear.

The life of a governess is not so cheerful as to cause one regret, at leaving it." And so, Gregory Hartley and his wife went out to Alexandria, and established themselves in three bright rooms, in the upper part of a house that commanded a view of the port, and the sea beyond it.