Were they the same eyes that but now had met his, half blind with tears?
He felt still the touch of those tears upon his hand.

He hastily looked away again, and plunged headlong into an answer to something Mabel was saying to him on her favorite subject of evolution.

All well-brought-up young ladies have a subject nowadays, which makes their conversation the delightful thing it is; and Mabel, of course, was not behind the fashion.
"Yes," Ruth heard Charles reply, "I believe with you we go through many lives, each being a higher state than the last, and nearer perfection.
So a man passes gradually through all the various grades of the nobility, soaring from the lowly honorable upward into the duke, and thence by an easy transition into an angel.

Courtesy titles, of course, present a difficulty to the more thoughtful; but, as I am sure you will have found, to be thoughtful always implies difficulty of some kind." "It does, indeed," said Mabel, puzzled but not a little flattered.

"I sometimes think one reads too much; one longs so for deep books--Korans, and things.