A mind so capacious and open, a nature so trained and poised, could not be otherwise than self-contained and calm even in the presence of changes so vast and manifold as those which have transformed society since the days of the great Athenian; but even he could not be quite unmoved if brought face to face with a life so unlike that with which he had been familiar; there must come, even to one who feels the mastery of the soul over all conditions, a certain sense of wonder and awe.
It was with some such feeling that Rosalind and I found ourselves in the Forest of Arden.

The journey was so soon accomplished that we had no time to accustom ourselves to the changes between the country we had left and that to which we had come.

We had always fancied that the road would be long and hard, and that we should arrive worn and spent with the fatigues of travel.

We were astonished and delighted when we suddenly discovered that we were within the boundaries of the Forest long before we had begun to think of the end of our journey.

We had said nothing to each other by the way: our thoughts were so busy that we had no time for speech.