Where trouble and sorrow are, there is my place, there lies my work.

In prosperity my friends sometimes forget me, but my hope and prayer is, that when affliction and disaster come, I may be with them.

You do not want me now; but when you do, God grant I may be with you! Remember my words." She remembered them well.
Frank made an excuse to go out, and Mary, crying bitterly, went into her bedroom.

When she was gone, the Major, who had been standing by the window, said,-- "My dear wife, that boy of hers is aggravating her.

Don't be too hard upon her." "My dear husband," said Mrs.Buckley, "I have no patience with her, to welcome an old friend, whom she has not seen for nearly twenty years, in that manner! It is too provoking." "You see, my love," said the Major, "that her nerves have been very much shaken by misfortune, and at times she is really not herself." "And I tell you what, mother dear," said Sam, "Charles Hawker is going on very badly.