You are all the more thorough in your pleasures, the truer humanist, for something of it still lurking in your blood." "Yes, of course you're right.

I don't like the word 'pagan'; but for want of a better, we might say that the best pagans have come of Puritan stock.

Besides, it is half the romance of life to have something to escape from, isn't it ?" "And someone to escape with the other half," responded Theophil, nimble as a real town wit.
O it was a wonderful night.

Let us build five tabernacles! "Good-night, dear Jenny." "Good-night, dear wonderful Isabel." So at last the two girls bade each other good-night at the door of Jenny's bedroom, where Isabel was to sleep.
Masterful youth! So wild to take, so eager to surrender, the Christian name.

Strange, what passion sometimes can be put into a _Christian_ name! When the door was shut on Isabel, she made no haste to undress.