house; she brought with her a perpetual spring.--_Toilers of the
Sea_.

Her entire person was simplicity, ingenuousness, whiteness, candor,
and radiance, and it might have been said of her that she was
transparent. She produced a sensation of April and daybreak, and
she had dew in her eyes. She was the condensation of the light of
dawn in a woman's form.--_Les Miserables._

The woman was weak, but the mother found strength.--_Ninety-Three._

Woman feels and speaks with the infallibility which is the tender
instinct of the heart.--_Les Miserables._

What is a husband but the pilot in the voyage of matrimony? Wife,
let your fine weather be your husband's smiles.--_Toilers of the
Sea._

No one knows like a woman how to say things which are at once
gentle and deep. Gentleness and depth,--in these things the whole
of woman is contained, and it is heaven.--_Les Miserables._

Beauty heightened by simplicity is ineffable, and nothing is so
adorable as a beauteous, innocent maiden, who walks along
unconsciously, holding in her hand the key of Paradise.--_Les
Miserables._

She had the prettiest little hands in the world, and little feet
to match them. Sweetness and goodness reigned throughout her
person; ... her occupation was only to live her daily life; her
accomplishments were the knowledge of a few songs; her intellectual
gifts were summed up in her simple innocence.--_Toilers of the
Sea._

The coquette is blind: she does not see her wrinkles.--_By Order of
the King._

A mother's arms are made of tenderness, and children sleep soundly
in them.--_Les Miserables._

There are moments when a woman accepts, like a sombre and resigned
duty, the worship of love.--_Les Miserables._

She was pale with that paleness which is like the transparency of a
divine life in an earthly face.... A soul standing in the
dawn.--_By Order of the King._

He looked at her, and saw nothing but her. This is love; one may be
carried away for a moment by the importunity of some other idea,
but the beloved one enters, and all that does not appertain to her
presence immediately fades away, without her dreaming that perhaps
she is effacing in us a world.--_By Order of the King._

She walked on with a light and free st