“Only a plank---a plank between them and the pitiless, fathomless ocean on which they had set out with such unknowing fearlessness; into whose boiling depths hundreds sank daily and disappeared, never to rise again.” LifeLife LessonsLife And Living Book:The Romance of a Shop Source: The Romance of a Shop
“That she had been brought face to face with the sterner side of life, had lost some illusions, suffered some pain, she did not regret. It seemed to her that she had not paid too great a price for the increased reality of her present existence.” LifeRealityExistenceDeterminationHardships Book:The Romance of a Shop Source: The Romance of a Shop