I discovered early that crying makes my nose red, and the knowledge has helped me through several painful episodes.

He had known the love that is fed on caresses and feeds them; but this passion that was closer than his bones was not to be superficially satisfied.

But after a moment a sense of waste and ruin overcame him. There they were, close together and safe and shut in; yet so chained to their separate destinies that they might as well been half the world apart.

Don't you ever mind," she asked suddenly, "not being rich enough to buy all the books you want?

It frightened him to think what must have gone to the making of her eyes.

Everything may be labelled- but everybody is not.

As he paid the hansom and followed his wife's long train into the house he took refuge in the comforting platitude that the first six months were always the most difficult in marriage. 'After that I suppose we shall have pretty nearly finished rubbing off each other’s angles,' he reflected; but the worst of it was that May's pressure was already bearing on the very angles whose sharpness he most wanted to keep