I know it has played the very deuce with my life.

It has made me discontented with what I have; but it hasn't shown me anything else that was worth striving for.

I seem to have lost the power of wanting because I've discovered that nothing is worth having after you get it.

Every apple has turned into Dead Sea fruit." He had never before spoken so freely, and when he had finished he felt awkward and half resentful.

Margaret's extraordinary frankness had started him, he supposed, on a similar strain; but he wished that he had kept back all that sentimental nonsense about what his mother called disapprovingly, his "frame of mind." Any frame of mind except the permanently settled appeared unsafe to Mrs.Culpeper; and her son felt at the moment that her opinion was justified.