He would give every penny he has (such is the malignity of the germ) to write one little book and become famous; yet all the gold in Peru will not buy him the treasure of a well-turned line.

“Ruin, weariness, death, perpetually death, stand grimly to confront the other p…”

“And she came in from the little room.”

“And it was awfully strange, he thought, how she still had the power, as she cam…”

“There was no treachery too base for the world to commit.”