I couldn't regard myself as personally repulsive. No man can, or, if he ever comes to do so, that is the end of him.

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

The world is full of places to which I want to return

New York is large, glamorous, easy-going, kindly and incurious, but above all it is a crucible - because it is large enough to be incurious.

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.

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

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