I found Burns, absorbed, silent, abstracted from all around her by the companionship of a book, which she read by the dim glare of the embers.

“I see at intervals the glance of a curious sort of bird through the close set b…”

“Most true is it that 'beauty is in the eye of the gazer.' My master’s colourles…”

“A child cannot quarrel with it's elders, as I had done-cannot give its furious …”

“you think all existence lapses in a quiet flow as that in which your youth has …”