The Bible requires us to be courteous and hospitable, said Mrs. Clarence, smiling, as though she rather more than half believed that her argument or remark was in point.

The fresh air hit him, and for a moment he could almost put a name on the stink that came out of the misopened gate.

For perfection is not, like light, center’d in any one body; but, like the dispersed seminalities of vegetables at the creation, scattered through the whole mass of the earth, no place producing all, and almost all some.

A very small expensive black toque was hideously unbecoming to the yellow, toad-like face beneath it.