Quincey Morris Quotes

″‘Lucy, you are an honest-hearted girl, I know. I should not be here speaking to you as I am now if I did not believe you clean grit, right through to the very depths of your soul. Tell me, like one good fellow to another, is there any one else that you care for? And if there is I’ll never trouble you a hair’s breadth again, but will be, if you will let me, a very faithful friend.‘”

“That’s my brave girl. It’s better worth being late for a chance of winning you than being in time for any other girl in the world.

Little girl, your honesty and pluck have made me a friend, and that’s rarer than a lover; it’s more unselfish anyhow.

“My dear, I’m going to have a pretty lonely walk between this and Kingdom Come. Won’t you give me one kiss? It’ll be something to keep off the darkness now and then.”

We promise you a hearty welcome, and a loving greeting, and a health as true as your own right hand. We shall both swear to leave you at home if you drink too deep to a certain pair of eyes. Come!”

“A brave man’s blood is the best thing on this earth when a woman is in trouble.

“Good, oh my friend John! Well thought of! Truly Miss Lucy, if she be sad in the foes that beset her, is at least happy in the friends that love her. One, two, three, all open their veins for her, besides one old man. Ah yes, I know, friend John; I am not blind! I love you all the more for it! Now go.”

Bleeding hearts, and dry bones of the churchyard, and tears that burn as they fall—all dance together to the music that he make with that smileless mouth of him.

Then tears come; and, like the rain on the ropes, they brace us up, until perhaps the strain become too great, and we break.

“I wish I could comfort all who suffer from the heart. Will you let me be your friend, and will you come to me for comfort if you need it?”″

His mother holds, I know, the secret belief that some of our brave friend’s spirit has passed into him.