believe that if I might be as sweet, and as kind, and as good as you are, I would

you have nobody to love you; and, however miserable you make us, we shall still have the revenge of thinking that your cruelty arises from your greater misery!

Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same; and Linton’s is as different as a moonbeam from lightning, or frost from fire.’

I wish I had light hair and a fair skin, and was dressed and behaved as well, and had a chance of being as rich as he will be!’

that couple of black fiends, so deeply buried, who never open their windows boldly, but lurk glinting under them, like devil’s spies?

‘Quietly as a lamb!’

his dread of that owner amounted to superstition; and he confined his feelings regarding him to muttered innuendos and private comminations.

It’s odd what a savage feeling I have to anything that seems afraid of me!

‘I won’t have them, now,’ she answered. ‘I shall connect them with you, and hate them.’