Cousin Phillis
Gaskell, Mrs. Elizabeth Cleghorn![Cousin Phillis](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/269/26908424/CHSBZCOP0326908424.jpg)
Excerpt from Cousin Phillis: And Other TalesThen, after this pride and satisfaction, came a sense of desolation. I had never been from home before, and I was' an only child, and though my father's spoken maxim had been, Spare the rod, and spoil the child, yet, unconsciously, his heart had yearned after me, and his ways towards me were more tender than he knew, or would have approved of in himself, could he have known. My mother, who never prof...