But death is awful; we must not think patiently, forgivingly of sending any one to their death in the best cause."-- "I fancy life was an awful thing to Conrad Dryfoos," March replied.

"He was thwarted and disappointed, without even pleasing the ambition that thwarted and disappointed him.

That poor old man, his father, warped him from his simple, lifelong wish to be a minister, and was trying to make a business man of him.

If it will be any consolation to you to know it, Miss Vance, I can assure you that he was very unhappy, and I don't see how he could ever have been happy here." "It won't," said the girl, steadily.

"If people are born into this world, it's because they were meant to live in it.