But the writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master.Elizabeth Gaskell
Her heart, her cares, her life, were for others.Elizabeth Gaskell
What that mind was, they both, in their several ways, knew perfectly well; both panted to try if their united strength could not set it again in motion.Elizabeth Gaskell
Oh, that we two were Maying, Down the stream of the soft spring breeze.Elizabeth Gaskell
The library was the principal room in the house to her.Elizabeth Gaskell
She needed her father’s companionship, and a kind of respectful treatment from him which had never been required from her lively, happy, bustling mother.Elizabeth Gaskell
The ground around the house is high, and the building itself comparatively so.Elizabeth Gaskell
From different causes, she was much alone in the world.Elizabeth Gaskell
The country seemed a desert, where no human being cared for another.Elizabeth Gaskell
Never was any one in a lonelier situation.Elizabeth Gaskell
Her spirits used to rise at the mere fact of seeing the open air.Elizabeth Gaskell
Her age—with its then scanty experience of the joys and ills of life—was ever ready to answer to the call for sympathy.Elizabeth Gaskell
Looking back upon it through the medium of subsequent sorrow, it affected her strangely.Elizabeth Gaskell