There was now a distinct manifestation of morning in the air, and presently the bleared white visage of a sunless winter day emerged like a dead-born child.

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

Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?

Why didn’t you tell me there was danger? Why didn’t you warn me? Ladies know what to guard against, because they read novels that tell them of these tricks; but I never had the chance of discovering in that way; and you did not help me!

He knelt and bent lower, till her breath warmed his face, and in a moment his cheek was in contact with hers. She was sleeping soundly, and upon her eyelashes there lingered tears.

The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.

Ladies know what to guard against, because they read novels that tell them of these tricks.