Status Updates From The Cloister and the Hearth...

“Life is a school, and the lesson ne’er done; we put down one fault and take up t’other, and so go blundering here, and blundering there, til we blunder into our graves, and there’s an end of us.”

I like it! Old-tmey language but that's part of the fun

A GR reviewer downrated this boo saying ti was too old=fashioned. It was published in 1861 -- what do you expect?

Only 300+ pages. Taking ages to read.

"The couple were well to do, and would have been free from all earthly care, but for nine children." 😂😂😂

"Not a day passes over the earth, but men and women of no note do great deeds, speak great words, and suffer noble sorrows."