Sapphira and the Slave Girl Quotes

“All Southern women wished of their menfolk was simply to be 'like Paris handsome and like Hector brave'.”
― Willa Cather, Sapphira and the Slave Girl

“We must rest, he told himself, on our confidence in His design. Design was clear enough in the stars, the seasons, in the woods and fields. But in human affairs—? Perhaps our bewilderment came from a fault in our perceptions; we could never see what was behind the next turn of the road.”
― Willa Cather, Sapphira and the Slave Girl

“the ironing-board. She turned from her path and went”
― Willa Cather, Sapphira and the Slave Girl

“The mill stood on the west bank of Back Creek: the big water-wheel hung almost over the stream itself. The creek ran noisily along over a rough stone bottom which here and there churned the dark water into foam. For the most part it was wide and shallow, though there were deep holes between the ledges. The dam, lying in the green meadows above the mill, was fed by springs, and a race conveyed the water to the big wooden wheel.”
― Willa Cather, Sapphira and the Slave Girl