More from Sarah Orne Jewett

  1. We were standing where there was a fine view of the harbor and its long stretches of shore all covered by the great army of the pointed fir…
  2. Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.
  3. 'Step in some afternoon,' he said, as affectionately as if I were a fellow-shipmaster wrecked on the lee shore of age like himself.
  4. In the life of each of us, I said to myself, there is a place remote and islanded, and given to endless regret or secret happiness.
  5. The old poets little knew what comfort they could be to a man.
  6. 'Tain't worthwhile to wear a day all out before it comes.
  7. Captain Littlepage had overset his mind with too much reading.
  8. The road was new to me, as roads always are, going back.

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