What lurking temptations to forbidden tenderness find their finding-places in a woman's dressing-gown, when she is alone in her room at night!
Wilkie CollinsBut, ah me! where is the faultless human creature who can persevere in a good resolution, without sometimes failing and falling back?
Wilkie CollinsI roused myself from the book which I was dreaming over rather than reading, and left my chambers to meet the cool night air in the suburbs.
Wilkie Collins