It was simply the love of adventure which led him into it." "Even if he did," Major Forrest remarked, "that same predatory instinct is alive to-day in another guise.

The whole world is preying upon one another.

We are thieves, all of us, to the tips of our finger-nails, only our roguery is conducted with due regard to the law." The Princess smiled faintly as she glanced across the table at the speaker.
"I am afraid," she said, with a little sigh, "that you are right.

I do not think that we have really improved with the centuries.

My own ancestors sacked towns and held the inhabitants to ransom.