I don't say he is of a more useful metal than other people, but he is of a different one.

Of course, however, that I shall miss him sadly is not a reason for his not going to seek his fortune.

Men must work and women must weep!" "Decidedly not!" said Rowland, with a good deal of emphasis.

He had suspected from the first hour of his stay that Cecilia had treated herself to a private social luxury; he had then discovered that she found it in Hudson's lounging visits and boyish chatter, and he had felt himself wondering at last whether, judiciously viewed, her gain in the matter was not the young man's loss.

It was evident that Cecilia was not judicious, and that her good sense, habitually rigid under the demands of domestic economy, indulged itself with a certain agreeable laxity on this particular point.