I can supply the reflections.

I'm English--if Colney 's right in saying we always come round to the story with the streak of supernaturalism.
I don't ask for bloodshed: that's what his "brandy" means.' 'But Mr.Durance is right, we require a shedding; I confess I expect it where there's love; it's part of the balance, and justifies one's excitement.

How otherwise do you get any real crisis?
I must read and live something unlike this flat life around us.' 'There's the Adam life and the Macadam life, Fenellan says.

Pass it in books, but in life we can have quite enough excitement coming out of our thoughts.

No brandy there! And no fine name for personal predilections or things done in domino!' Victor said, with his very pleasant face, pressing her hand, to keep the act of long holding it in countenance and bring it to a well-punctuated conclusion: thinking involuntarily of the other fair woman, whose hand was his, and who betrayed a beaten visage despite--or with that poor kind of--trust in her captain.