Sublime

Her mother, too, had possessed this dangerous faculty of tears; and it was not wonderful if the sober-minded Doctor, roused for the first time to consider his little girl as a creature possessed of individual character, should recognise, with a thrill of dismay, the appearance of the same qualities which had wearied his life out, and brought his yo

But there were various subjects that Dorothea was trying to get clear upon, and she resolved to throw herself energetically into the gravest of all. She sat down in the library before her particular little heap of books on political economy and kindred matters, out of which she was trying to get light as to the best way of spending money so as not

with curiosity and compassion.

in early childhood, the daughter of some obscure deacon, who grew up in the rich house of her benefactress,

First this was merely the hope of bearing better ones, and then they recognized that however the children differed at birth, the real growth lay later—through education.