You do not quite realize what your coming means to Catrina." "Catrina! Ah!" The weak blue eyes looked into the strong face and read nothing there.
"I doubt," said Paul, "whether it is right for you to continue sacrificing Catrina for the sake of the little good that you are able to do.

You are hampered in your good work to such an extent that the result is very small, while the pain you give is very great." "But is that so, Pavlo?
Is my child unhappy ?" "I fear so," replied Paul gravely, with his baffling self-restraint.
"She has not much in common with her mother, you understand." "Ah, yes!" "It is you to whom she is attached.

Sometimes it is so with children and parents.

One cannot tell why." Steinmetz looked as if he could supply information upon the subject: but he remained silent, standing, as it were, in an acquiescent attitude.
"You have fought your fight," said Paul.

"A good fight, too.