You may say that I am young and strong, but I cannot, for my soul, see anything bright ahead." His voice trembled and she glanced up at his face.

He was looking at the diamond that sparkled on her left hand.
"You have no right to say that life is a failure; you have no right to lie down on your arms and give, up the fight.

That is the act of a coward.

After all, it is not the way to win a woman's love." "You don't mean--is it possible that you could--" he began.
"No, no! You must not hope.

I love another as dearly as you love me.