In seasons of pestilence, some of us will have a secret attraction to the disease--a terrible passing inclination to die of it.

“Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.”

“My sister having so much to do, was going to church vicariously, that is to say…”

“He had a certain air of being a handsome man--which he was not; and a certain a…”

“had lately come to the English Crown and People, from a congress of British sub…”