Everything about seems to exhale the spirit of romance; don't you find it so ?" He smiled at her enthusiasm, his glance of undisguised admiration on her face.

"I certainly recall some such earlier conception," he admitted.

"Those just arriving from the environment of an older civilization perceive merely the picturesque elements; but my later experiences have been decidedly prosaic." "Why, Mr.Wynkoop! how could they be?
Your work is heroic.

I cannot conceive how any minister of the Cross, having within him any of the old apostolic fervor, can consent to spend his days amid the dreary commonplaces of those old, dead Eastern churches.

You, nobly battling on the frontier, are the true modern Crusaders, the Knights of the Grail.