The cook was a good cook, as cooks go; and as cooks go, she went.

People may say what they like about the decay of Christianity the religious system that produced green Chartreuse can never really die.

Romance at short notice was her speciality.

He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.

He seems the incarnation of everything soft and silky and velvety, without a sharp edge in his composition, a dreamer whose philosophy is sleep and let sleep.

It is an admitted fact that the ordinary tomtit of commerce has a sounder aesthetic taste than the average female relative in the country.

Sherard Blaw, the dramatist who had discovered himself, and who had given so ungrudgingly of his discovery to the world.