'I must be content with translations.' 'Translations You would not say that so calmly if you knew what you were renouncing.

Everything, everything in literature, I would give up to save my Greek.

You will learn it, I know you will; some day I shall hear you read the hexameters as beautifully as you read English poetry to the girls.

Will you not begin if I beg you to ?' The elbow on which he rested moved a few inches nearer to her.

He saw the pearly shadows waver upon her throat, and her lips tremble into rigidity.
'My time in the holidays will be very limited,' she said.