1 My wife and my sister will never recover from their horror.
2 Felix had procured passports in the name of his father, sister, and himself.
3 You may deem me romantic, my dear sister, but I bitterly feel the want of a friend.
4 You, perhaps, regard her as your sister, without any wish that she might become your wife.
5 One by one, her brothers and sister died; and her mother, with the exception of her neglected daughter, was left childless.
6 But if his countenance was more sorrowful, his voice was more cheerful than that of his sister, especially when he addressed the old man.
7 She sometimes begged Justine to forgive her unkindness, but much oftener accused her of having caused the deaths of her brothers and sister.
8 His blind and aged father and his gentle sister lay in a noisome dungeon while he enjoyed the free air and the society of her whom he loved.
9 I arrived here yesterday, and my first task is to assure my dear sister of my welfare and increasing confidence in the success of my undertaking.
10 In the midst of poverty and want, Felix carried with pleasure to his sister the first little white flower that peeped out from beneath the snowy ground.
11 But I will endeavour to detail these bitter circumstances to you, my dear sister; and while I am wafted towards England and towards you, I will not despond.
12 I am," said she, "the cousin of the unhappy child who was murdered, or rather his sister, for I was educated by and have lived with his parents ever since and even long before his birth.
13 A sister or a brother can never, unless indeed such symptoms have been shown early, suspect the other of fraud or false dealing, when another friend, however strongly he may be attached, may, in spite of himself, be contemplated with suspicion.