Affairs--to a sick man!" "Who should be thinking of the affairs of another world, my sister." "Those always should come first," she answered, with downcast eyes.
"And of what did Mr.Sander want to speak ?" I asked.
She looked up with a gleam of interest.

Beneath the demure bib of her professional apron there beat still a woman's heart.

Sister Renee wanted to tell me the news herself.
"Oh," she answered, "it is nothing that will interest you.

You are not even an Italian--only an Englishman." "That is all, my sister." "But all Genoa is on the housetops about it." "Ah!" "Yes.

Never has there been so great a catastrophe; but you have no friends here, so it will not affect you." "Therefore, I may be the more safely told.