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“I believe that this suffering, which Miss Hale says is impressed on the countenances of the people of Milton, is but the natural punishment of dishonestly-enjoyed pleasure, at some former period of their lives. I do not look on self-indulgent, sensual people as worthy of my ha-tred; I simply look upon them with contempt for their poorness of character.'”

“Now when I feel that in my own case it is no good luck, nor merit, nor talent,— but simply the habits of life which taught me to despise indulgences not thoroughly earned,—indeed, never to think twice about them,”

“he almost longed to ask her to do for him what he saw her compelled to do for her father, who took her little finger and thumb in his masculine hand, and made them serve as sugar-tongs. Mr Thornton saw her beautiful eyes lifted to her father, full of light, half-laughter and half-love, as this bit of pantomime went on between the two, unobserved, as they fancied, by any.