New thoughts and hopes were whirling through my mind, and all the colours of my life were changing.

“My sister, Mrs. Joe Gargery, was more than twenty years older than I, and had e…”

“Life is made of so many partings welded together”

“The night wore out, and, as he stood upon the bridge listening to the water as …”

“I was attentive to my knife and fork, spoon, glasses, and other instruments of …”