I have passed the period of a woman's life when as a woman she is loved; but I have have not outlived the power of loving. - Anthony Trollope

every vice might be forgiven in a man and in a son, though every virtue was expected from a woman, and especially from a daughter.

This was Barrington Erle, a politician of long standing, who was still looked upon by many as a young man, because he had always been known as a young man, and because he had never done anything to compromise his position in that respect. He had not married, or settled himself down in a house of his own, or become subject to the gout, or given up being careful about the fitting of his clothes.

To have her meals, and her daily walk, and her fill of novels, and to be left alone, was all that she asked of the gods.