I learned in one evening to know the king, queen, and jack apart, and to understand what my partner meant when she winked at me.
"The worst of this condition of things is that we shall bear the marks of it all our lives.

We are now sixteen daily papers behind the rest of the world, and in those sixteen papers are items known to all the people in all the cities, which will never be known to us.

How prices have fluctuated in that time we shall not know--what houses have burned down, what robberies have been committed.

When the papers do come, each of us will rush for the latest dates; the news of two weeks ago is now history, and no one reads history, especially the history of one's own country.
"I bought a copy of 'Aurora Leigh' just before the freezing up, and I have been careful, as it is the only copy on the island, to circulate it freely.

It must have been a pleasant visitor in the four or five households which it has entered.