If instinct plays fantastical tricks when we are sleeping, let it be ever behind a curtain.

We can be held guilty only if we court exposure.

The ideal of English gentleman and gentlewoman is closely Roman in the self-repression it exacts, and that it should be but occasionally difficult to them shows an affinity with the type.

Do you perchance, O continental observers of the race, call it hypocritical?
It is their nature disciplined to the regimental step of civilisation.

Socially these island men and women of a certain middle rank are veterans of an army, and some of the latest enrolled are the stoutest defenders of the flag.
Brother and sister preserved their little secrets of character apart.
They could not be expected to unfold what they declined personally to examine.