With averted head she passed the pool, steadily pursuing her way.

Elvira Carney, hanging towels across the back fence, saw her coming and went toward the gate to meet her.

Twenty years she had dreaded that visit.
Since Margaret Sinton had compelled her to produce the violin she had hidden so long, because she was afraid to destroy it, she had come closer expectation than dread.

The wages of sin are the hardest debts on earth to pay, and they are always collected at inconvenient times and unexpected places.

Mrs.Comstock's face and hair were so white, that her dark eyes seemed burned into their setting.