I won't say she was silly, but I think one of us was silly, and it wasn't me.

But I was right. I think that must be an hereditary quality, for my father says he is scarcely ever wrong.

Don’t be afraid,” she said, coldly, “ as far as love may go she may be worthy of you. It must have taken a good deal to overcome her pride. Don’t be afraid, John.

The French girls would tell you, to believe that you were pretty would make you so.

It is the first changes among familiar things that make such a mystery of time to the young; afterwards we lose the sense of the mysterious. I take changes in all I see as a matter of course. The instability of all human things is familiar to me, to you it is new and oppressive." (Mr. Bell)

Were all men equal to-night, some would get the start by rising an hour earlier to-morrow.

He came up straight to her father, whose hands he took and wrung without a word - holding them in his for a minute or two, during which time his face, his eyes, his look, told of more sympathy than could be put into words.