But, like all happiness, it did not last long…

Well, I am happy, and I won't fret, but it does seem as if the more one gets the more one wants…

Dear me! how happy and good we'd be, if we had no worries!

The dirt is picturesque, so I don't mind.

I'm afraid I couldn't like him without a spice of human naughtiness.

Jo's ambition was to do something very splendid; what it was she had no idea, as yet, but left it for time to tell her…