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.

It is in human nature to respect power; but all his
manliness was at stake, and his natural rights would be degraded and lost, if he could not show his power to be greater than her own.

There, don't you think I'm always a-fault-finding! When I get hold of the real thing in folks, I stick to 'em, — but there's an awful sight of poor material walking about that ain't worth the ground it steps on.

When one really knows a village like this and its surroundings, it is like becoming acquainted with a single person. The process of falling in love at first sight is as final as it is swift in such a case, but the growth of true friendship may be a lifelong affair.