The most terrible thing about it is not that it breaks one’s heart—hearts are made to be broken—but that it turns one’s heart to stone.

“He has certainly not been paying me compliments. Perhaps that is thereason that…”

“now and then the fantastic shadows of birds in flight flitted across the long t…”

“I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never o…”

“Rugged and straightforward as he was, there was something in his nature that wa…”