The world can forgive practically anything except people who mind their own business.

If! If! If! There were so many ifs in life, never any sense of security, always the dread of losing everything.

They were always like two people talking to each other in different languages. But she loved him so much, when he withdrew as he had now done, it was like the warm sun going down and leaving her in chilly twilight dews.

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

Forgive me for startling you with the impetuosity of my sentiments, my dear Scarlett—I mean, my dear Mrs. Kennedy. It cannot have escaped your notice that for some time past the friendship I have had in my heart for you has ripened into a deeper feeling, a feeling more beautiful, more pure, more sacred. Dare I name it you? Ah! It is love which makes me so bold!

It had been so long since she had seen him and she had lived on memories until they were worn thin.

What is there to see in Europe? I'll bet those foreigners can't show us a thing we haven't got right here in Georgia.