It is so easy for a woman to become what the man she loves believes her to be

Life is the saddest thing there is, next to death.

I don't know that I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want some one who made it interesting.

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

Some things are best mended by a break.

The early mist had vanished and the fields lay like a silver shield under the sun. It was one of the days when the glitter of winter shines through a pale haze of spring.

It is the omnipresent rush of water which give the Este Gardens their peculiar character. From the Anio, drawn up the hillside at incalculable cost and labour, a thousand rills gush downward, terrace by terrace, channeling the stone rails of the balusters, leaping from step to step, dripping into mossy conches, flashing in spray from the horns of sea-gods and the jaws of mythical monsters, or forcing themselves in irrepressible overflow down the ivy-matted banks.