Crossword-Solution: STELLA 6 letters, 262 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 6

Milly and Stella both looked through the door into the sitting-room, where a crayon portrait of John Bergson hung on the wall.

Moors and Jews, Jews and Moors! Oh my poor sins, my poor sins, that brought me to live amongst them!— “‘Ave Maris stella, Dei Mater alma, Atque semper virgo, Felix cœli porta!’” He was proceeding in this manner when I was startled by the sound of a musket.

These letters, all faithfully preserved, I have been privileged to see; they remind me, in their mixture of personal with narrative charm, of Swift’s “Letters to Stella”; except that Swift’s are often coarse and sometimes prurient, while Kinglake’s chivalrous admiration for his friend, though veiled occasionally by graceful banter, is always respectful and refined.

Such is the penalty a son of genius often pays in heart- throbs for the inability to do aught else but follow his destiny--follow his star, even though as Dante says:-- "Se tu segui tua stella Non puoi fallire a glorioso porto." {3} What added a keen thrill as of quivering flesh exposed, was that Thomas Stevenson on one side was exactly the man to appreciate such attainments and work in another, and I often wondered how far the sense of Edinburgh propriety and worldly estimates did weigh with him here.

Her hair was blacker than a raven, and every feature of her face in perfection." This was the Stella of Swift's after-life, the one woman to whom his whole love was given.