Out in the Forty-Five Duncan Keith's Vow

My Aunt Kezia has an awful way of looking round at us. She begins with Sophy--she is our eldest--then she goes to Fanny, then to Hatty, and ends up with me. As I am the youngest...

Here they all are at last, and the house is as full as it will hold. The Bracewells came first in their great family coach and four-- Charlotte and Amelia and a young friend who...

"Ah, common questions that do not signify," said he, with a smile. "But this is not an insignificant question, Cary; and it is one that I have no right to ask unless you choose...

This afternoon I went up the Scar by myself. First I climbed right to the top, and after looking round a little, as I always like to do on the top of a mountain, I went down a f...

"I've kept old ways, and loved old friends, Till, one by one, they've slipped away; Stand where we will, cling as we like, There's none but God can be our stay. 'Tis only by our...

"O Jesu, Thou art pleading, In accents meek and low, I died for you, My children, And will ye treat Me so? O Lord, with shame and sorrow, We open now the door: Dear Saviour, ent...

Yesterday, when Flora and I sat at our sewing in the manse parlour, something happened which has set everything in a turmoil. We had been talking, but we were silent just then:...

"Nay, I'll not hold you long," saith she, as I arose and offered my seat. "I come but to give a bit of good counsel to my nieces here. Miss Annas, my dear, it will very like not...

I could not think what he meant, and I did not like to ask him. Indeed, I had not much opportunity, for he began talking about our journey, and Brocklebank, and all the people t...

We had a grand time of it last night, to celebrate the Prince's entry into Derby. I did not see one red ribbon. Grandmamma is very much put out at the forbidding of French cambr...

I feel more and more certain that something is wrong in Charles Street. The invitation is declined, not by Hatty herself, but in a note from Mrs Crossland: "Miss Hester Courtena...

Grandmamma's Tuesday was the day after I writ. The Newtons were there,--at least Mrs Newton and Miss Theresa,--and ever so many people whom I knew and cared nothing about. My La...

"It were to be wished the flaws were fewer In the earthen vessels holding treasure Which lies as safe in a golden ewer: But the main thing is, does it hold good measure?"

"They say, when cities grow too big, Their smoke may make the skies look dim; And so may life hide God from us, But still it cannot alter Him. And age and sorrow clear the soul,...