But it was too late. He had angered Providence by resisting too many temptations. There was nothing left but heaven, where he would meet only those who, like him, had wasted earth.

“He thinks himself rather an exceptional young man, thoroughly sophisticated, we…”

“but there was an immediately perceptible vitality about her as if the nerves of…”

“One autumn night, five years before, they had been walking down the street when…”

“one of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty−one that …”