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Katie Stewart: A True Story QUOTES

Katie Stewart: A True Story QUOTES

1 " A wilful girl but a little while ago—now a woman with a conscious will, subduing under it the emotions which are as strong as her life;—learning to smile over her tears for the sake of others—learning not only to counterfeit calmness, but to have it, for the sake of those who break their hearts to see her suffer;—practised to restrain the power of sorrow —to keep up, with many a struggle, the sinking heart. All these results, and the efforts which have led to them, are unknown to Lady Anne, who has no rebellious feelings to restrain; so that Katie has made the furthest progress in the training of actual life. "

― Mrs. Oliphant , Katie Stewart: A True Story

2 " Na, she's righted again," said a cool young fisherman, "and they've gotten down that unchancy mast. They maun have stout hearts and skeely hands that work her; but it's for life, and that learns folk baith pith and lear. There!—but it's owre now. "

― Mrs. Oliphant , Katie Stewart: A True Story