Fantastic, unpractical, they were gluttons for the romantic, the recondite, and the dainty.

But now had come a breath of strong wind which rent the meshes of a philandering fancy.

A very new and strange feeling was beginning to make itself known.

He had come to think of Alice with the hot pained affection which makes the high mountains of the world sink for the time to a species of mole-hillock.

She danced through his dreams and usurped all the paths of his ambition.