While the flowers, pale and unreal in the moonlight, floated away upon the river; and thus do greater things that once were in our breasts, and near our hearts, flow from us to the eternal sea.

“Christmas is a poor excuse every 25th of December to pick a man's pockets.”

“Eugene, Eugene, Eugene, this is a bad business!”

“and a queen with a plain face, on the throne of England; there were a king with…”

“It is a long time,' repeated his wife; 'and when is it not a long time? Vengean…”