Society soon grows used to any state of things which is imposed upon it without explanation.

Some things are best mended by a break.

I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the author's political views.

And all the while, I suppose," he thought, "real people were living somewhere, and real things happening to them.

..but it seemed to him that the tie between husband and wife, if breakable in prosperity, should be indissoluble in misfortune.

I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story.

Mrs. Ballinger is one of the ladies who pursue Culture in bands, as though it were dangerous to meet it alone.