I stole her heart away and put ice in its place.

A dangerous quality, if real; and a not less dangerous one, if feigned.

and it was not until I began to think, that I began fully to know how wrecked I was, and how the ship in which I had sailed was gone to pieces.

And I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States.

You fear the world too much,' she answered gently. 'All your other hopes have merged into the hope of being beyond the chance of its sordid reproach. I have seen your nobler aspirations fall off, one by one, until the master passion, Gain, engrosses you. Have I not?

Polly put the kettle on, we'll all have tea.

Love, though said to be afflicted with blindness, is a vigilant watchman.