But it only proves what I say--that the way's open to you." "If it is, dear father, it's all the greater pity that I'm unable to tread it.

I haven't many convictions; but I have three or four that I hold strongly.

One is that people, on the whole, had better not marry their cousins.

Another is that people in an advanced stage of pulmonary disorder had better not marry at all." The old man raised his weak hand and moved it to and fro before his face.

"What do you mean by that?
You look at things in a way that would make everything wrong.