If you think I'll let my heart cling to another woman's sweetheart--nay, but I'd tear it out of my breast first.

Yes, I dare say, it will be a year or two before I can listen to another man's voice without hating him for wooing of me; but time cures all that don't fight against the cure.

And YOU'LL love me a little, miss, now, won't you?
You used to do, before I deserved it half as well as I do to-day." "Of course I shall love you, my poor Jael.

But what is my love, compared with that you are now giving up so nobly ?" "It is not much," said Jael, frankly; "but 'a little breaks a high fall.' And I'm one that can only enjoy my own.

Better a penny roll with a clear conscience, than my neighbor's loaf.