Excerpts from the Book 'Cousin Phillis':

... at home and I had had to be civil to old Peters at Eltham, and behave myself for five hours running whenever he asked me to tea at his house ...
... There was a garden between the house and the shady, grassy lane I afterwards found that this garden was called the court perhaps because there was ...
... practical as well as reverend, I shall begin to respect him.'. But he hardly attended to my answer, he was so much more occupied with directing his ...
... got hold of he thought clearly and reasoned logically. Phillis-so like him as she was both in body and mind-kept stopping at her work and looking at ...
... she. 'But you are our guest and mother says I must make it pleasant to you. We won't talk of books. What must we talk about.'. 'I don't know. How ...
... friends for this idea being utterly put away and buried out of sight. Late in the evening the minister came home from Hornby. He had been calling ...
... drawer, and, under pretence of being as much interested as her husband in the drawing, was secretly trying on an outside mark how easily it would come ...
... as Holdsworth was that morning. We came down upon the Hope Farm before the dew was off the grass on the shady side of the lane the great house-dog was ...
... too.'. 'To be sure. I remember. But somehow I never put two and two together. That quiet girl, full of household work, is the wonderful scholar, ...
... always used to fancy accompanied country life, by the extraordinary intelligence of the minister. I have fallen into calling him the minister'', like ...
... because I wondered at the time what he had said in that low voice to silence Phillis so effectually, and because, in thinking of their intercourse ...
... again.' Phillis got up and left the room with noiseless steps. 'I am very sorry,' said the minister. 'I am sure so am I.' said cousin Holman. ...
... said,-. 'Don't, Paul. I cannot bear it.' and passed me, still sobbing, and went out into the keen, open air. I stood still and wondered. What ...
... in all she said. And then we strolled on into the wood beyond the ash-meadow, and both of us sought for early primroses, and the fresh green crinkled ...
... ready words of Holdsworth.'. The first little cloud upon my peace came in the shape of a letter from Canada, in which there were two or three sentences ...
... I thought it must be my fancy that falsely represented Phillis to me as strangely changed, for surely, if this idea of mine was well-founded, her parents-her ...
... of her sex and I was only too glad to change the subject by my repeated injunctions to keep Phillis's secret. The end of our conversation was this ...
... not speak now, but looked out of the open casement at the calm large moon, slowly moving through the twilight sky. Once I thought her eyes were filling ...
... recovery, or even evil prophecy of the probable end, the cautious doctor would be entrapped into neither. He gave his directions, and promised to ...
... I found Timothy Cooper, the stupid, half-witted labourer, sitting, idly throwing bits of mortar into the brook below. He just looked up at me as I came ...