There was something regnant in her, while, too, there was something sumptuous and sensuous and physically thrilling to the senses.

To-day she was dressed in an exquisite blue gown, devoid of all decoration save a little chinchilla fur, which only added to its softness and richness.

She wore no jewelry whatever except a sapphire brooch, and her hair shone and waved like gossamer in the sun.
"Well, I don't know," he rejoined, admiration unbounded in his eyes for the picture she was of maidenly charm and womanly beauty, "I should say that goodness was a more wonderful thing.

But power is the most common ambition, and only a handful of the hundreds of millions get it in any large way.

I used to feel it tremendously when I first heard the stamps pounding the quartz in the mills on the Rand.