It is the most foolish of all things to imagine that by prolonging the career of the individual, death is kept at bay.

The present self must die in any case by the inevitable process of time, whether the body be kept in repair for later selves or not.

The death of the body is but the end of the daily dying that makes up earthly life." They were married in the sitting-room before the picture that had exerted so strong an influence upon their lives.

The servants were invited in, but there was no company.

Ida wore a white satin with a low corsage, and as she stood directly below the picture, the resemblance impressed the beholders very strikingly.