I was only thinking whether you would be any happier if I acceded to your wishes and removed to the North.

Here you live in good style--you have a luxurious home, troops of servants to wait upon you, a carriage at your disposal.

In fact, everything for which you express a desire." "I know all that, Garie, and what I am about to say may seem ungrateful, but believe me, dear, I do not mean it to be so.

I had much rather live on crusts and wear the coarsest clothes, and work night and day to earn them, than live here in luxury, wearing gilded chains.

Carriages and fine clothes cannot create happiness.