I was in the Square at the time. The crowd was a most good-humoured, easy going, smiling crowd; but presently it was transformed. A regiment of mounted police came cantering up.

IN April 1882 my father died; and I was at once whirled out of my land of dreams into a very different sphere.

I was in the Square at the time. The crowd was a most good-humoured, easy going, smiling crowd; but presently it was transformed. A regiment of mounted police came cantering up.

I might have simply settled down into an armchair literary life. I really don't know exactly why I didn't.

We lived within two hundred yards of the sea, and its voice was in our ears night and day.

Great success in examinations does naturally not as a rule go with originality of thought.

Let your mind be quiet, realizing the beauty of the world, and the immense boundless treasures that it holds.