In two great palaces, from his father’s now middle-aged fellow-warriors king Nestor at Pylos and king Menelaus in Sparta, he hears accounts of the Greek armies’ gale-blown, sorrow-ridden return from the fall of Troy.

Isabel's a sweet young thing; but do you think she's so good as that?

[…] it's a good thing for she to get a husbind that can give her a goulden coach to ride in, if she's got a mind to it. But there, her pretty face is wuth a tummal of money […]

Both in Central America and in Orinoco there yet are many unpenetrated forests which are almost entirely composed of wild cacao-trees.