When prayers were ended, and his Mother had wished him good-night with that long steady look of hers which conveyed no expression of the tenderness that was in her heart, but yet had all the intensity of a blessing.


North and South (ed. 1855)

Elizabeth Gaskell Quotes

When prayers were ended, and his Mother had wished him good-night with that long steady look of hers which conveyed no expression of the tenderness...

When prayers were ended, and his Mother had wished him good-night with that long steady look of hers which conveyed no expression of the tenderness...

When prayers were ended, and his Mother had wished him good-night with that long steady look of hers which conveyed no expression of the tenderness...

When prayers were ended, and his Mother had wished him good-night with that long steady look of hers which conveyed no expression of the tenderness...