The Old Guard dies but it never surrenders.

It was not often that she was alone like this and she did not like it. When she was alone she had to think and, these days, thoughts were not so pleasant.

I won't think of it now. I can't stand it now. I'll think of it later.

I'm riding you with a slack rein, my pet, but don't forget that I'm riding with curb and spurs just the same.

Hush," he said. "I am asking you to marry me. Would you be convinced if I knelt down?

It was hard to believe there was so much money in all this bitter and poverty-stricken world. So much money, so very much money, and someone else had it, someone who took it lightly and didn't need it.

I loved something I made up, something that's just as dead as Melly is. I made a pretty suit of clothes and fell in love with it. And when Ashley came riding along, so handsome, so different, I put that suit on him and made him wear it whether it fitted him or not. And I wouldn't see what he really was. I kept on loving the pretty clothes—and not him at all.