Curious how Love destroys every vestige of that politeness which the human race, in its years of evolution, has so painfully acquired.

Curious how Love destroys every vestige of that politeness which the human race, in its years of evolution, has so painfully acquired.

Surely she had endured enough for one evening without having to listen to intelligent conversation?

She liked Victorian novels. They were the only kind of novel you could read while eating an apple.

A straight nose is a great help if one wishes to look serious'.

One of the disadvantages of almost universal education was the fact that all kinds of persons acquired a familiarity with one's favorite writers. It gave one a curious feeling; it was like seeing a drunken stranger wrapped in one's dressing gown.

Flora sighed. It was curious that persons who lived what the novelists called a rich emotional life always seemed to be a bit slow on the uptake.