It was all vague, but that she had seen it or heard it she was sure.
"Your father's people, you never knew them ?" He shook his head.

"Nor of them.

Here was my home--I had no desire to discover them.

We draw in upon ourselves here." "There is great force in such a life and such a people," she answered.
"If the same concentration of mind could be carried into the wide life of the world, we might revolutionise civilisation; or vitalise and advance it, I mean--as you are doing in Egypt." "I have done nothing in Egypt.

I have sounded the bugle--I have not had my fight." "That is true in a sense," she replied.