Had Aylmer reached a profounder wisdom, he need not thus have flung away the happiness which would have woven his mortal life of the selfsame texture with the celestial.
It was strange to see that the good shrank not from the wicked, nor were the sinners abashed by the saints.
'The sin of an intellect that triumphed over the sense of brotherhood with man and reverence for God, and sacrificed everything to its own mighty claims! The only sin that deserves a recompense of immortal agony!
Even Pygmalion, when his sculptured woman assumed life, felt not greater ecstasy than mine will be.
That flower has struck deep root into my memory. I can both see it and smell it, at this moment.
Girls are incomparably wilder and more effervescent than boys, more untamable and regardless of rule and limit, with an ever-shifting variety, breaking continually into new modes of fun, yet with a harmonious propriety through all.