I suppose I have lived in a little corner of the world, and what seems strange and wild to me might, after all, seem not so much out of the way to a young man with different ideas like you.

Only, this much I do believe, at any rate," he went on, buttoning up his coat and watching the taxicab which was coming along the street; "if you want a quiet, honest life, doing your duty to yourself and others, and living according to the old-fashioned standards of honesty and upright living, then when you have had that dinner with the Count Sabatini to-night, forget him, forget where he lives.

Come back to your work here, and if the things of which the Count has been talking to you seem to have more glamor, forget them all the more zealously.

The best sort of life is always the grayest.
The life which attracts is generally the one to be avoided.

We don't do our duty," Mr.Weatherley added, brushing his hat upon his sleeve reflectively, "by always looking out upon the pleasurable side of life.