What was your deputation from Milton?
About the governorship ?" "Yes." "What did you say ?" "I thanked them for the honour they did me, and told them that I had declined the nomination." "You have declined it! Why ?" He smiled again.

"You used to preach contentment when I was a boy and you heard me rage out against my father.

Well--shall I not rest content with being a great lawyer ?" His old neighbour regarded him keenly above her turkey-feather fan.
"Lewis Rand, Lewis Rand," she said at last, "I wish I knew your end." He laughed.

"Do you mean my aim in life, or my last hour ?" "The one," said his visitor sharply, "will be according to the other.

We all wander through a wood into some curious place at last.