"He thought you might be "thirty" not "thirteen." "No child of thirteen ever wrote such a hand as that" he cried. Howe…"

"The great question is, do you generally think right or wrong? I should say (judging by the experience of many years) …"

"The greatest blow that has ever fallen on my life was the death, nearly thirty years ago, of my own dear father; so, …"

"That text is consecrated for me by the memory of one of the greatest sorrows I have known — the death of my dear fath…"

"My dear Ada, - (Isn't that your short name? "Adelaide" is all very well, but you see when one's dreadfully busy one h…"

"I am writing this to wish you many and many a happy return of your birthday to-morrow. I will drink your health, if o…"

"This really will not do, you know, sending one more kiss every time by post: the parcel gets so heavy it is quite exp…"

"Most things, you know, ought to be studied: even a trunk is studded with nails."

"How far is it from Winckfield to Rotherwick? Now do not deceive me, you wretched child! If it is more than a hundred …"

""Why can't you make up your mind?" that's a riddle I've just invented. "Because you haven't got one to make up" - tha…"