They walked softly, as men do instinctively at night.

we are in the native land of the hypocrite."

He had been a macaroni of the eighteenth century,

battened,

epigram."

Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing....

a dowdy dull girl, with one of those characteristic British faces that, once seen, are never remembered;

married life is merely a habit, a bad habit. But then one regrets the loss even of one's worst habits. Perhaps one regrets them the most. They are such an essential part of one's personality."

ormolu