The Channings Quotes

“She was only one of those simple, truthful, natural English girls, whom I hope you often meet in your every-day life. She smiled at William Yorke through her glistening eye-lashes, and drew closer to him. Did he take the hint? He took her; took her to that manly breast that would henceforth be her shelter for ever.”
― Mrs. Henry Wood, The Channings

“I don’t know what you will say to me for introducing you into the privacy of Mr. and Mrs. Jenkins’s bed-chamber, but it is really necessary to do so. We cannot very well get on without it.”
― Mrs. Henry Wood, The Channings

“carried it out artistically, with a completeness, a skill, worthy of a better cause. Several”
― Mrs. Henry Wood, The Channings

“What cough do you call it?” went on Roland Yorke—you may have guessed he was the speaker. “A churchyard cough?” “Well, I don’t know, sir,” said Jenkins. “It has been called that, before now. I dare say it will be the end of me at last.” “Cool!” remarked Roland. “Cooler than I should be, if I had a cough, or any plague of the sort, that was likely to be my end. Does it trouble your mind, Jenkins?”
― Mrs. Henry Wood, The Channings

“Mrs. Channing smiled. “Troubles seldom come from the quarter we anticipate them.”
― Mrs. Henry Wood, The Channings

“In the first flow of their indignation, the boys, freely ringing the changes of rebellion, had avowed to one another that they would acquaint the dean with the head-master’s favouritism, and request his interference—as too many of us do when things happen that annoy us. We are only too prone to speak out our mind, and to proclaim what our remedy or revenge shall be. But when our anger has subsided, and we see things in their true light, we find that those boasts were only loud talking, and cannot be acted upon. Thus”
― Mrs. Henry Wood, The Channings

“Were our duty always pleasant to us, where would be the merit in fulfilling it?”
― Mrs. Henry Wood, The Channings