But these are busy times and things to be done cannot wait till you finish loving and wailing, or till you die of a broken heart without having done anything for your fellow men." "Bravo!" exclaimed the sympathetical and easily aroused Italian, grasping the speaker by the hand and pressing it with revived energy.
"My excellent leader, you are right!" "And by and by," said the other, with an effort, as though he had to master inward commotion, "when you win a prize from your own country and you look for household joys more agreeably to reward you, you may find one not far from here at this moment to be your wife.

For, generally, the bane is near the antidote--the serpent is crushed under the heel next the beneficent plant which heals the bite." "Rebecca ?" questioned the young man in amazement.

"But if I can read her heart as you do mine, master, Rebecca Daniels loves you." "She admires me and pities me, Antonino," replied Clemenceau, hastily, as if wishful to elude the question.

"She does not love me.

Besides, that is of no consequence.