Stepmothers in books usually behave very spitefully towards the children entrusted to them. But he was now learning by his own experience that in real life this does not always happen.

Old age is a disease from which there is no recovery but the old nun's recent attack had certainly been brought on chiefly by the fatigue of so much travelling.

A night of endless dreams, inconsequent and wild, is this my life; none more worth telling than the rest.

Autumn is no time to lie alone

Intimacy between stepchildren and stepparents is indeed proverbially difficult.

Foolish indeed are those who trust to fortune.

It is indeed in many ways more comfortable to belong to that section of society whose action are not publicly canvassed and discussed