In the life of each of us, I said to myself, there is a place remote and islanded, and given to endless regret or secret happiness; we are each the u… - Sarah Orne Jewett

In the life of each of us, I said to myself, there is a place remote and islanded, and given to endless regret or secret happiness.

So we always keep the same hearts, though our outer framework fails and shows the touch of time.

The coast of Maine was in former years brought so near to foreign shores by its busy fleet of ships that among the older men and women one still finds a surprising proportion of travelers. Each seaward-stretching headland with its high-set houses,

I now remembered that Mrs. Todd had told me one day that Captain Littlepage had overset his mind with too much reading.