pains

All “spirit and fire and dew,” as she was, the pleasures and pains of life came to her with trebled intensity.

All her pains were bestowed upon Anne, who, she vowed, must, for the credit of Avonlea, be dressed and combed and adorned to the Queen’s taste.

The situation of your mother’s family, though objectionable, was nothing in comparison of that total want of propriety so frequently, so almost uniformly betrayed by herself, by your three younger sisters, and occasionally even by your father:--pardon me,--it pains me to offend you.

Elizabeth had the satisfaction of seeing her father taking pains to get acquainted with him; and Mr.