Some of them are fools, but they have it all the same, and they keep it to the end.

What is most queer about it is that they are not easily won.

The men who trouble hearts for a game do not win these women." "Some one will suffer," said Rivers reflectively.

He wondered if the wooing of Ann Grey by this masterful man had been a long one.

A moment he gave to remembrance of his own long and tender care of the very young wife he had won easily and seen fade with terrible slowness as her life let fall its joys as it were leaf by leaf, with bitter sense of losing the fair heritage of youth.