The Phoenix and the Carpet

The sorrows of youth soon appear but as dreams,

Of course, we are all pleased to suffer for the sake of others, but we like them to know it unless we are the very best and noblest kind of people, and Robert was just ordinary.

There is nothing like light when you are afraid of burglars—or of anything else, for that matter.

'Everything has two ends,' said the Phoenix, softly; 'even a quarrel or a secret passage.'

and there was a new cook who looked so like a frightened rabbit that no one had the heart to do anything to frighten her any more than seemed natural to her.

'I warn you,' said Cyril, solemnly. 'Beware, ere yet it be too late.'

She's a cantankerous cat

'I did tell you, you know,' said the Phoenix, 'only you are so fond of listening to the music of your own voices. It is, indeed, the most lovely music to each of us, and therefore—'

but, of course, a carpet's only a carpet, whereas a Phoenix is superlatively a Phoenix.