"Like the man resting while the women worked, and the Emperor, and all the rest of it." "Oh, yes, I know," the boy returned.
"They ride modern machines, but they live in the tenth century.

That's what we're always forgetting when we come to Europe and see these barbarians enjoying all our up-to-date improvements." "There, doesn't that console you ?" asked his mother, and she took him away with her, laughing back from the door.

"I don't believe it does, a bit!" "I don't believe she understands the child," said Mrs.March.

"She is very light, don't you think?
I don't know, after all, whether it wouldn't be a good thing for her to marry Kenby.

She is very easygoing, and she will be sure to marry somebody." She had fallen into a tone of musing censure, and he said, "You might put these ideas to her." XL.
With the passage of the days and weeks, the strange faces which had familiarized themselves at the springs disappeared; even some of those which had become the faces of acquaintance began to go.