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l air of dissipation which would have made his own person the fitting object of a Scotland Yard investigation. He was immensely tickled by his own adventures, and laughed heartily as he recounted them

marched as though they were six months gone with child

“Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything

No wife has ever changed a husband one whit, and don’t you be forgetting that.

Only when like marries like can there be any happiness.

“I won’t think of that now,” she said firmly. “If I think of it now, it will upset me.

Ellen had never told her that desire and attainment were two different matters; life had not taught her that the race was not to the swift.

Love isn’t enough to make a successful marriage when two people are as different as we are.

learned through grim years that to survive a family must present

wly.

“I thought we were about through with soldiers,” s