It is often equally in vain that we call them from the vasty deep, or try to dismiss them to it.

They are rebellious creatures, whose only merit is their sincerity.
Sir Roderick Ayre allowed few things to surprise him, but the fact of any one deliberately starting by the early train was one of the few.

In regard to such conduct, he retained all his youthful capacity for wonder.

Surprise, however, gave way to unrestrained and indecent exultation when he learned that the early party had consisted of Kate and Haddington, and that Eugene himself had escorted them to the station.

Eugene was in too good a temper to be seriously annoyed.
"I know it makes me look an ass," he said, as they smoked the after-breakfast pipe, "but I suppose that's all in the day's work." "No doubt.