"Henroost" Quotes from Famous Books
... highly, as a human being! And his great little heart burned and glowed with joy and gratitude! And he would no more have taken pay for doing her uncle a service than he would have picked a pocket or robbed a henroost! He just adored her lovely clemency, and he was even turning over in his mind the problem how he, a poor, poor boy, hardly able to afford himself a halfpenny candle to read by, after dark, could repay her kindness—what could he find, invent, or achieve ...![](http://www.e-freetranslation.com/rquot.gif) — Ishmael - In the Depths • Mrs. E. D. E. N. Southworth |