Finorange

He spoke of the happiness that was now certainly theirs, of the folly of not breaking sooner out of that magnificent prison of latter-day life, of the old romantic days that had passed from the world for ever.

Slicermire

She stared at him in astonishment, and as she read something of the significant hieroglyphic of his battered face, her lips whitened.

Harequilt

I protest, even warmly, that neither he nor his sorrows were in my intention. Boarcream.

He spoke of the happiness that was now certainly theirs, of the folly of not breaking sooner out of that magnificent prison of latter-day life, of the old romantic days that had passed from the world for ever.

Near it in the field, I remember, were three faint points of light, three telescopic stars infinitely remote, and all around it was the unfathomable darkness of empty space.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

The sun set; the dusk fell on the stream, and lights began to appear along the shore. The Chapman light–house, a three–legged thing erect on a mud–flat, shone strongly.

The Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest.