I can make them serve very well for my own system; for I am myself, you know, an out-an-out Greek." "Why, I had supposed that you were full blooded Irish," the Rev.Mr.
Ware found himself remarking, and then on the instant was overwhelmed by the consciousness that he had said a foolish thing.

Precisely where the folly lay he did not know, but it was impossible to mistake the gesture of annoyance which his companion had instinctively made at his words.
She had widened the distance between them now, and quickened her step.
They went on in silence till they were within a block of her house.
Several people had passed them who Theron felt sure must have recognized them both.
"What I meant was," the girl all at once began, drawing nearer again, and speaking with patient slowness, "that I find myself much more in sympathy with the Greek thought, the Greek theology of the beautiful and the strong, the Greek philosophy of life, and all that, than what is taught nowadays.

Personally, I take much more stock in Plato than I do in Peter.

But of course it is a wholly personal affair; I had no business to bother you with it.

And for that matter, I oughtn't to have troubled you with any of our--" "I assure you, Miss Madden!" the young minister began, with fervor.
"No," she broke in, in a resigned and even downcast tone; "let it all be as if I hadn't spoken.