At your time of life the knowledge cannot come from observation.

It may my poor boy, come through pain; and if what I think is correct you will even in due time be grateful to the pain which left such golden residuum.' He paused, and Harold grew interested.

There was something in the old man's manner which presaged a truth; he, at least, believed it.

So the young man listened at first with his ears; and as the other spoke, his heart listened too: 'Young men are apt to think somewhat wrongly of women they love and respect.

We are apt to think that such women are of a different clay from ourselves.