Now, my dear Cap, if you don’t look sharp your hour is come! Nothing on earth will save you, Cap, but your own wits! For if ever I saw mischief in any one’s face, it is in that fellow’s that is eating you up with his great eyes at the same time that he is laughing at you with his big mouth! Now Cap, my little man, be a woman!
E.D.E.N. SouthworthThere are some persons whom we can never make happy. It is not in them to be so.
E.D.E.N. SouthworthAh! The transitory joy of the past week had been but the lightning's arrowy course scathing where it illumined!
E.D.E.N. SouthworthShe loved old houses and old legends well enough to enjoy them; but was not sufficiently credulous to believe, or cowardly to fear, them.
E.D.E.N. SouthworthLad, there are other starvations besides the total lack of food. There are slow starvations and divers ones. - Doctor Day
E.D.E.N. SouthworthI wonder how long they'll keep me here? Forever, I hope. Until I get cured. I hope they won't cure me; I vow I won't be cured. It's a great deal too pleasant to be mad, and I'll stay so.
E.D.E.N. SouthworthAnd no sooner had Cap been commanded, if she valued her safety, not to cross the water or climb the precipice than, as a natural consequence, she began to wonder what was in the valley behind the mountain and what might be in the woods across the river. And she longed, above all things, to explore and find out for herself.
E.D.E.N. SouthworthCatch me coming to my senses, when it's so delightful to be mad. I'm too sharp for that.
E.D.E.N. SouthworthFie on it! Cowardice is worse than death!
E.D.E.N. SouthworthThe mother smiled at his earnestness - smiled without the least misgiving; for, to her apprehension, the youth was still a boy, to wonder at and admire beauty, without being in the least danger of having his peace of mind disturbed by love.
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