All possible means were used by the infatuated parents to conclude the bargain; and deception put an end to these usual artifices.

After a prosperous, but to me very wearisome, voyage, we came at last into port. Immediately on landing I got together my few effects; and, squeezing myself through the crowd, went into the nearest and humblest inn which first met my gaze.

On recovering my senses, I hastened to quit a place where I hoped there was nothing further to detain me. I first filled my pockets with gold, then fastened the strings of the purse round my neck, and concealed it in my bosom.

All possible means were used by the infatuated parents to conclude the bargain; and deception put an end to these usual artifices.

Because it appears to me a hazardous thing to exchange my soul for my shadow.

What use would wings be to a man bound in iron fetters? They would only drive him to even greater despair.

In pain a new time is born.