Perhaps second-hand cares, like second-hand clothes, come easily off and on.

I am well aware that I am the 'umblest person going. . . . My mother is likewise a very 'umble person. We live in a 'umble abode.

Château and hut, stone face and dangling figure, the red stain on the stone floor, and the pure water in the village well-thousands of acres of land-a whole province of France-all France itself-lay under the night sky, concentrated into a faint hairbreadth line. So does a whole world, with all its greatnesses and littlenesses, lie in a twinkling star.

We must leave the discovery of this mystery, like all others, to time, and accident, and Heaven's pleasure.

His wardrobe was extensive-very extensive-not strictly classical perhaps, not quite new, nor did it contain any one garment made precisely after the fashion of any age or time, but everything was more or less spangled; and what can be prettier than spangles!

Can you suppose there's any harm in looking as cheerful and being as cheerful as our poor circumstances will permit?

The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you