sybyl

Updated: May 27, 2025

You want to be sure the tree you are thinking to make a shelter for your whole life, will have far-reaching and uplifting branches, and will not be merely an earth-bound twig. Since your church permits no second marriage save by the door of death, do not make a mistake in your first. Take a year, at least, of absence and separation, and think the matter over. To Sybyl Marchmont

Ella Wheeler Wilcox - A Woman of the World: Her Counsel to Other People's Sons and Daughters

You will thank me for this advice sometime, even if it seems unreasonable to you to-day, and remember, I would not take the liberty or the trouble to so advise you, did I not love you and feel anxious for your welfare. To Sybyl Marchmont Who Has Learned Her Origin Your despairing letter lies before me.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox - A Woman of the World: Her Counsel to Other People's Sons and Daughters

And whichever of these peculiarities are hers, she is quite sure to be wholly unconscious of it, while she is quick to see that of another. Now watch yourself, my dear Sybyl, as you walk alone toward middle life; do not allow yourself to grow queer or impossible. It was God's intent that every plant should blossom and bear fruit, and that every human being should mate and produce offspring.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox - A Woman of the World: Her Counsel to Other People's Sons and Daughters

Begin to-day, my dear girl, to grow beauty which shall make you a power and an influence in the world where you move, and which shall invite, rather than fear, the approach of time. To Mrs. White Peak One of the Pillars of Respectable Society Ever since your call and our conversation regarding Sybyl Marchmont, I have felt a rising tide of indignation.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox - A Woman of the World: Her Counsel to Other People's Sons and Daughters