Why, man, you don't mean to say that you're in earnest--that you are really stricken; that this promises to be something unlike all other heart or head troubles with you ?" He laughed.
"I am inclined to believe that the gravest diagnosis is the correct one." "But how about the present Mrs.Harlson ?" No friend less close than I could have asked such a question.

I almost repented it myself, when I noted the look which came upon the man's face after its utterance.
I suppose such a look might come to one in prison, who, in the midst of some pleasant fancy, has forgotten his surroundings, and is awakened to reason and suddenly to a perception again of the grim walls about him, and of his helplessness and, maybe, hopelessness.

Harlson left the mantel against which he bad been leaning, and walked about the room for a moment or two before speaking.
"It's true," he said, "I am certainly a married man.

The law allows it, and the court awards it, as things are in this society, bound by the tapes of Justice Shallow and the rest.

I entered into a contract which was a mistake on the part of two people.