“There was no rest and no play for anyone now. They all worked from candle-light to candle-light. Mother and the girls were making cucumber ...

"'Aye!' said Mrs. Purkis, smoothing down the bed, and despatching Jenny for an armful of lavender-scented towels..." ~ Eli...

“She thought to herself, "This is now." She was glad that the cozy house, and Pa and Ma and the firelight and the music, were now....

“I long to accomplish great and noble tasks, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble. The wor...