Yes; quaint and curious war is! You shoot a fellow down you'd treat if met where any bar is, or help to half-a-crown.

My eyes were dazed by you for a little, and that was all.

Nobody had beheld the gravitation of the two into one

This good fellowship - camaraderie - usually occurring through the similarity of pursuits is unfortunately seldom super-added to love between the sexes, because men and women associate, not in their labors but in their pleasures merely. Where, however, happy circumstances permit its development, the compounded feeling proves itself to be the only love which is strong as death - that love which many waters cannot quench, nor the floods drown, besides which the passion usually called by the name is as evanescent as steam.

She was but a transient impression, half forgotten.

I have felt lately, more and more, that my present way of living is bad in every respect.

A strong woman who recklessly throws away her strength, she is worse than a weak woman who has never had any strength to throw away.