It is, as Mr. Rokesmith says, a matter of feeling, but Lor how many matters ARE matters of feeling!

All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself.

It was darkly rumoured that the butler, regarding him with favour such as that stern man had never shown before to mortal boy, had sometimes mingled porter with his table beer to make him strong.

I must do something or I shall wear my heart away.

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.

When I have come to you, at last (as I have always done), I have come to peace and happiness. I come home, now, like a tired traveller, and find such a blessed sense of rest!

But the words she spoke of Mrs Harris, lambs could not forgive ... nor worms forget.