Phoebe Marks was a person who never lost her individuality. Silent and self-contained, she seemed to hold herself within herself, and take no colour from the outer world.

A priest can achieve great victories with an army of women at his command.

My intellect is a little way upon the wrong side of that narrow boundary-line between sanity and insanity.

Surely a pretty woman never looks prettier than when making tea.

You seem to have quite a taste for discussing these horrible subjects," she said, rather scornfully; "you ought to have been a detective police officer.

Phoebe Marks was a person who never lost her individuality. Silent and self-contained, she seemed to hold herself within herself, and take no colour from the outer world.

A modern writer likens coquettes to those hunters who do not eat the game which they have successfully pursued.