Oh, why must a man like that be made unhappy when there are lots of girls about who would worship the very ground he trod on?

Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!

And then away for home! Away to the quickest and nearest train! Away from this cursed land, where the devil and his children stil walk with earthly feet!

He means to succeed, and a man who has centuries before him can afford to wait and to go slow.

I am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt; I fear; I think strange things, which I dare not confess to my own soul. God keep me, if only for the sake of those dear to me!

Safety and the assurance of safety are things of the past.

She was young and very beautiful, but pale, like the grey pallor of death.