The sun was already declining and each of the trees held a premonition of night.

But nothing in India is identifiable, the mere asking of a question causes it to disappear or to merge in something else.

A sentence begins quite simply, then it undulates and expands, parentheses intervene like quick-set hedges, the flowers of comparison bloom, and three fields off, like a wounded partridge, crouches the principal verb, making one wonder as one picks it up, poor little thing, whether after all it was worth such a tramp, so many guns, and such expensive dogs, and what, after all, is its relation to the main subject, potted so gaily half a page back, and proving finally to have been in the accusative case.

Culture had worked in her own case, but during the last few weeks she had doubted whether it humanized the majority, so wide and so widening is the gulf that stretches between the natural and the philosophic man, so many the good chaps who are wrecked in trying to cross it.

But after all, what have we to do with taverns? Real menace belongs to the drawing-room.

The sun was already declining and each of the trees held a premonition of night.

Let her go to Italy!" he cried. "Let her meddle with what she doesn't understand!