What an unsubstantial, happy, foolish time! Of all the times of mine that Time has in his grip, there is none that in one retrospection I can smile at half so much, and think of half so tenderly.

“Scattered wits take a long time in picking up.”

“She had curiously thoughtful and attentive eyes; eyes that were very pretty and…”

“for not an orphan in the wide world can be so deserted as the child who is an o…”

“You are a young man," she said, nodding. "Take a word of advice, even from thre…”