Once let a maiden admit the possibility of her being stricken with love for some one at a certain hour and place, and the thing is as good as done.

Well, what I mean is that I shouldn't mind being a bride at a wedding, if I could be one without having a husband.

Do you know that I have undergone three quarters of this labour entirely for the sake of the fourth quarter?

That cold accretion called the world, so terrible in the mass, is so non formidable, even pitiable, in its units.

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.

He wished she knew his impressions; but he would as soon have thought of carrying an odour in a net as of attempting to convey the intangibilities of his feeling in the coarse meshes of language. So he remained silent.

O, you have torn my life all to pieces... made me be what I prayed you in pity not to make me be again!