But what does it avail?
A sick person is not to be made well with words.

How many a woman has waited for the return of an absent lover who may perhaps have gone around the world, or to the north pole, and who yet cannot get beyond the reach of her love and yearning!" "If it were only the earth's diameter that lay between you!" murmured Blanka.
"True," replied Anna, resting her head on her hand; "the wide world is not so effective a barrier as a bewitching face that has once thrust itself between two loving hearts.

That is harder to circumnavigate than the earth itself." "If a pretty face were all that stood between you----" began the other once more, sitting down beside her friend and putting her arms about her.
"Yes, yes, I know," the poor girl interrupted; "the whole world and heaven and hell stand between us.

All the laws of honour, of faith, and of patriotism, tear us asunder.

I cannot go to him where he is, but yet it may be that he will come back to me--some day." "Do you think so ?" "I believe it as I believe in one God above us.