It had grown darker as they talked, and the wind was sawing and the sawdust was whirling outside paler windows. The underlying churchyard was already settling into deep dim shade, and the shade was creeping up to the housetops among which they sat. "As if," said Eugene, "as if the churchyard ghosts were rising."

It being a remarkable fact in theatrical history, but one long since established beyond dispute, that it is a hopeless endeavor to attract people to a theatre unless they can be first brought to believe that they will never get in.

My hair stands on end at the cost and charges of these boys. Why was I ever a father! Why was my father ever a father!

I looked at the stars, and considered how awful it would be for a man to turn his face up to them as he froze to death, and see no help or pity in all the glittering multitude.

Gold, for the instant, lost its luster in his eyes, for there were countless treasures of the heart which it could never purchase

I ate 'umble pie with an appetite.

I know enough of the world now to have almost lost the capacity of being much surprised by anything