"Take my heart, sweet Jesus, take my life/ I borrowed them from you, now have them back/ Come down to me, possess me as your wife/ The breath I lose in you I never lack" (Chapter 4, p. 41).

"When Natty at last reached the head of the stairs, and turned to encourage me with a smile of the most melting sweetness, I had no thought in my brain except this: everything we do, we must do together" (Chapter 4, p. 42).

"The world is very wide -that is all I mean. It is full of dangers we cannot predict" (Chapter 6, p. 56).

"The earth remembers us. We are generally survived by the homes we have lived in -and our improvements, like our desecrations, leave marks on the landscape that curious historians may study. When we no longer live and breathe, headstones show where our journey has ended. In all such ways, the...