And that is why, at times, pleasures tire me a little; and a little discontent creeps in.

It is ungrateful and ungracious of me to say so, but I did wish so much to go to college--to have something to care for--as mother cared for father's work.

Why, do you know that my mother accidentally discovered the thirty-seventh sign in the Karian Signary ?" "No," said Selwyn, "I did not know that." He forbore to add that he did not know what a Signary resembled or where Karia might be.
Miss Erroll's elbow was on her knee, her chin resting within her open palm.
"Do you know about my parents ?" she asked.

"They were lost in the _Argolis_ off Cyprus.

You have heard.