It is very foolish, and often suicidal, of men to correct women for going into rapture over mud flats.

On that occasion, however, the only resultant harm was the conviction in the girl's heart that the presence of Paul turned mud flats into beds of asphodel.

Then, just as she saw outer things through his eyes, she felt herself regarded by outer eyes through him.

His rare and absurd beauty made him a cynosure whithersoever he went.

London, vast and seething, could produce no such perfect Apollo.