Conversation's got to have some root in the past, or else you've got to explain every remark you make, an' it wears a person out.

When she walked...she stretched out long and thin like a little tiger, and held her head high to look over the grass as if she were treading the jungle.

Do not hurry too fast in these early winter days, - a quiet hour is worth more to you than anything you can do in it.

Conversation's got to have some root in the past, or else you've got to explain every remark you make, an' it wears a person out.

Life was resumed, and anxious living blew away as if it had not been. I could not breathe deep enough or long enough. It was a return to happiness.

In these days the young folks is all copy-cats, 'fraid to death they won't be all just alike; as for the old folks, they pray for the advantage o' bein' a little different.

my friends plunged into a borderless sea of reminiscences and personal news.