Never should reputation of woman trail a scent! How true! and true also that the women of waxwork never do; and that the women of happy marriages do not; nor the women of holy nunneries; nor the women lucky in their arts.

It is a test of the civilized to see and hear, and add no yapping to the spectacle.
Thousands have reflected on a Diarist's power to cancel our Burial Service.

Not alone the cleric's good work is upset by him; but the sexton's as well.

He howks the grave, and transforms the quiet worms, busy on a single poor peaceable body, into winged serpents that disorder sky and earth with a deadly flight of zig-zags, like military rockets, among the living.

And if these are given to cry too much, to have their tender sentiments considered, it cannot be said that History requires the flaying of them.