Pray, what set you to asking me this?
Any strange cases among the scholars ?" The meek teacher's blue eyes met the luminous glance that came with the question.

She, too, was of gentle blood,--not meaning by that that she was of any noted lineage, but that she came of a cultivated stock, never rich, but long trained to intellectual callings.

A thousand decencies, amenities, reticences, graces, which no one thinks of until he misses them, are the traditional right of those who spring from such families.
And when two persons of this exceptional breeding meet in the midst of the common multitude, they seek each other's company at once by the natural law of elective affinity.

It is wonderful how men and women know their peers.

If two stranger queens, sole survivors of two shipwrecked vessels, were cast, half-naked, on a rock together, each would at once address the other as "Our Royal Sister." Helen Darley looked into the dark eyes of Bernard Langdon glittering with the light which flashed from them with his question.