If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty years as I could in a day.

Nonsense, do you imagine he has thought as much of you as you have of him?

If I had caused the cloud, it was my duty to make an effort to dispel it.

Oh, for the time when I shall sleep Without identity.

But you might as well bid a man struggling in the water, rest within arm's length of the shore! I must reach it first, and then I'll rest.

They forgot everything the minute they were together again.

The Lord help us!' he soliloquised in an undertone of peevish displeasure, while relieving me of my horse: looking, meantime, in my face so sourly that I charitably conjectured he must have need of divine aid to digest his dinner, and his pious ejaculation had no reference to my unexpected advent.