"For, as Sir Charles walked across the garden with us down to the ferry, didn't I hear those same sugary melodies tinkling out of some upper open window ?" "I am afraid you did.

You see she had made up her mind to come with me." "And you were forced to intimate you found yourself quite equal to conducting the expedition unshepherded ?" "I did not mean to be unkind, but she would have been so dreadfully in the way"-- Damaris gathered up a handful of little pebbles, and let them dribble down slowly between her outspread fingers while, turning her head, she gazed away out to sea.
"This is a day by itself," she said.

"It looks like jewels, topazes, turquoise, and pearls; and it seems full of things which half tell themselves, and then hide from or pass you by .-- I wanted to watch it all and think; and, she doesn't do it on purpose I know, but somehow Miss Bilson always interferes with my thinking." Both the tone and substance of this discourse proved slightly startling to its hearer.

They carried the conversation into regions transcendental; and to his blissful laziness, the rarefied air of those regions was unwelcome.

To breathe it demanded exertion.