They were simple, earnest people, those early Victorians, and had not yet learnt the trick of avoiding disturbing thoughts and sights.

But responsibility hardens the heart. It must.

Open the book to page ninety-nine and read, and the quality of the whole will be revealed to you.

He thought he suddenly understood. For the Lincon-shire sergeant-major the word Peace meant that a man could stand up on a hill. For him it meant someone to talk to.

We are all so afraid, we are all so alone, we all so need from the outside the assurance of our own worthiness to exist.

If you only would!" He added rather diffidently: "If you would not mind remembering that I am a military court of inquiry. It makes it easier for me to report to the general if you say things dully and in the order that they happened.

And it was a most remarkable, a most moving glance, as if for a moment a lighthouse had looked at me.