Longing Hearts Could Only Stand So Much

God Help The Man Who Ever Really Loves You.

That's What's Wrong With You. All Your Beaux Have Respected You Too Much, Though God Knows Why, Or They Have Been Too Afraid Of You To Really Do Right By You. The Result Is That You Are Unendurably Uppity. You Should Be Kissed And By Someone Who Knows How.

It Doesn’t Matter Who You Marry, As Long As He Thinks Like You And Is A Gentleman And A Southerner And Prideful. For A Woman, Love Comes After Marriage.” “oh, Pa, That’s Such An Old Country Notion!” “and A Good Notion It Is! All This American Business Of Running Around Marrying For Love, Like Servants, Like Yankees! The Best Marriages Are When The Parents Choose For The Girl. For How Can A Silly Piece Like Yourself Tell A Good Man From A Scoundrel?

She Could See So Clearly Now That He Was Only A Childish Fancy, No More Important Really Than Her Spoiled Desire For The Aquamarine Earbobs She Had Coaxed Out Of Gerald. For, Once She Owned The Earbobs, They Had Lost Their Value, As Everything Except Money Lost Its Value Once It Was Hers.

Her Lips On His Could Tell Him Better Than All Her Stumbling Words.