Elkmountain

I am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt; I fear; I think strange things, which I dare not confess to my own soul. God keep me, if only for the sake of those dear to me!

Musejade

He completely abandoned the child of his marriage with Adelaida Ivanovna, not from malice, nor because of his matrimoni- al grievances, but simply because he forgot him.

Slothfreckle

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. Bugpink.

The Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest.

Then followed a battle of looks between them, but the captain soon knuckled under, put up his weapon, and resumed his seat, grumbling like a beaten dog.

She stared at him in astonishment, and as she read something of the significant hieroglyphic of his battered face, her lips whitened.

The secular cooling that must someday overtake our planet has already gone far indeed with our neighbour.