I have been so long master that I would be master still, or at least that none other should be master of me.

Chasing an errant swarm of bees is nothing to following a naked lunatic when the fit of escaping is upon him!

Yes, there is some one I love, though he has not told me yet that he even loves me.

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

He may not enter anywhere at the first, unless there be some one of the household who bid him to come, though afterwards he can come as he please.

It is really wonderful how much resilience there is in human nature. Let any obstructing cause, no matter what, be removed in any way, even by death, and we fly back to first principles of hope and enjoyment.

There was a deliberate voluptuousness that was both thrilling and repulsive. And as she arched her neck she actually licked her lips like an animal till I could see in the moonlight the moisture Then lapped the white, sharp teeth. Lower and lower went her head. I closed my eyes in a languorous ecstasy and waited.