“How ever did you see that?” “Because I looked for it.”

It was all love on my side, and all good comradeship and friendship on hers. When we parted she was a free woman, but I could never again be a free man.

The ideal reasoner, he remarked, would, when he had once been shown a single fact in all its bearings, deduce from it not only all the chain of events which led up to it but also all the results which would follow from it.

I am afraid that I rather give myself away when I explain," said he. "Results without causes are much more impressive.

London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.

How sweet the morning air is! See how that one little cloud floats like a pink feather from some gigantic flamingo. Now the red rim of the sun pushes itself over the London cloud-bank. It shines on a good many folk, but on none, I dare bet, who are on a stranger errand than you and I. How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great elemental forces of Nature!

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.