No sensible man ever engages, unprepared, in a fencing match of words with a woman.

Your tears come easy, when you're young, and beginning the world. Your tears come easy, when you're old, and leaving it. I burst out crying.

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

Men ruin themselves headlong for unworthy women.

But I am a just man, even to my enemy - and I will acknowledge, beforehand, that they are cleverer brains than I thought them

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.

This is the story of what a Woman's patience can endure, and what a Man's resolution can achieve.