It seems to say, 'Nothing really matters: you'll all be in the tod's hole in less than a hundred years.

I remain, and the river and the hills.'" "Yes," said Pamela, "they are a great comfort, the unchanging things--these placid round-backed hills, and the river and the grey town--to us restless mortals....

Look, Jean, I want you to tell me if you think this miniature is at all like Duncan Macdonald.

You remember I asked you to let me have that snapshot of him that you said was so characteristic and I sent it to London to a woman I know who does miniatures well.

I thought his mother would like to have it.