The horrid mystery hanging over us in this house gets into my head like liquor, and makes me wild.

It is one of my rules in life, never to notice what I don't understand.

Where is the woman who has ever really torn from her heart the image that has been once fixed in it by a true love? Books tell us that such unearthly creatures have existed - but what does our own experiences say in answer to books?

And earth was heaven a little the worse for wear. And heaven was earth, done up again to look like new.

Let the music speak to us of tonight, in a happier language than our own.

Not the shadow of a doubt crossed my mind of the purpose for which the Count had left the theatre. His escape from us, that evening, was beyond all question the preliminary only to his escape from London. The mark of the Brotherhood was on his arm-I felt as certain of it as if he had shown me the brand; and the betrayal of the Brotherhood was on his conscience-I had seen it in his recognition of Pesca.

My business in life is to eat, drink, sleep, and die. Everything else is superfluity and I will have none of it.