And I often wish it were so.

So many miseries come upon me from the miserable money--' Here she broke down, and burst out crying, and ran away with a faint good-bye; while we three looked at one another, and felt that we had the worst of it.
'Impudent little dwarf!' said my mother, recovering her breath after ever so long.

'Oh, John, how thankful you ought to be! What a life she would have led you!' 'Well, I am sure!' said Annie, throwing her arms around poor mother: 'who could have thought that little atomy had such an outrageous spirit! For my part I cannot think how she can have been sly enough to hide it in that crafty manner, that John might think her an angel!' 'Well, for my part,' I answered, laughing, 'I never admired Ruth Huckaback half, or a quarter so much before.

She is rare stuff.

I would have been glad to have married her to-morrow, if I had never seen my Lorna.' 'And a nice nobody I should have been, in my own house!' cried mother: 'I never can be thankful enough to darling Lorna for saving me.