I'm a slacker." "The difference between us," Von Ragastein pronounced, "is something which is inculcated into the youth of our country and which is not inculcated into yours.

In England, with a little money, a little birth, your young men expect to find the world a playground for sport, a garden for loves.

The mightiest German noble who ever lived has his work to do.
It is work which makes fibre, which gives balance to life." Dominey sighed.

His cigar, dearly prized though it had been, was cold between his fingers.

In that perfumed darkness, illuminated only by the faint gleam of the shaded lamp behind, his face seemed suddenly white and old.