But you Germans are born with an aptitude for borrowing; you can't help yourselves.

You must sniff after reasons, just as that dog must after a mole.

He knows perfectly well he will never catch it, but he's under the imperative necessity of digging for it." "But he might find it." "Might!--but he never has and never will.

Life is too short to run after mights; we must have certainties." She tucked the box under her arm and was about to walk on, when Gregory Rose, with shining spurs, an ostrich feather in his hat, and a silver-headed whip, careered past.

He bowed gallantly as he went by.
They waited till the dust of the horse's hoofs had laid itself.
"There," said Lyndall, "goes a true woman--one born for the sphere that some women have to fill without being born for it.