Very likely in Persia and India they have not.

I only want you to believe that there may be women so fortunate as to possess a modicum of immortality.

Well, pardon my interruption, 'if you looked abroad,' as you were saying?
--" "If I looked abroad, I should probably discover little petty traits of the same class, if not exactly identical.

I know little of Englishmen, and might be the more readily deceived.

Supposing, if you will, that, after freeing myself from all my present ties, in order to start afresh, I were to find myself attracted by some English girl here"-- there must have been something wrong with the mouthpiece of his pipe, for he examined it very attentively-- "attracted," he continued, "by some one, for instance, by Miss Westonhaugh--" he stopped short.
So my inspiration was right.