OPHELIA in Classic Quotes

1  And now, while the distant domes and spires of New Orleans rise to our view, there is yet time for an introduction to Miss Ophelia.

Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XV

2  On such a farm, in such a house and family, Miss Ophelia had spent a quiet existence of some forty-five years, when her cousin invited her to visit his southern mansion.

Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XV

3  Miss Moseley, who came into the house to help to do the dress-making, acquired daily accessions of importance from the developments with regard to Miss Ophelia's wardrobe which she had been enabled to make.

Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XV

4  He had taken her with him on a tour to Vermont, and had persuaded his cousin, Miss Ophelia St. Clare, to return with him to his southern residence; and they are now returning on this boat, where we have introduced them to our readers.

Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XV

5  It was known at the minister's and at the doctor's, and at Miss Peabody's milliner shop, that Ophelia St. Clare was "talking about" going away down to Orleans with her cousin; and of course the whole village could do no less than help this very important process of talking about the matter.

Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XV

6  The minister, who inclined strongly to abolitionist views, was quite doubtful whether such a step might not tend somewhat to encourage the southerners in holding on to their slaves; while the doctor, who was a stanch colonizationist, inclined to the opinion that Miss Ophelia ought to go, to show the Orleans people that we don't think hardly of them, after all.

Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
ContextHighlight   In CHAPTER XV