Songpond

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

Warlockeast

Near it in the field, I remember, were three faint points of light, three telescopic stars infinitely remote, and all around it was the unfathomable darkness of empty space.

Bonestream

She stared at him in astonishment, and as she read something of the significant hieroglyphic of his battered face, her lips whitened. Playerpond.

I protest, even warmly, that neither he nor his sorrows were in my intention.

Then followed a battle of looks between them, but the captain soon knuckled under, put up his weapon, and resumed his seat, grumbling like a beaten dog.

He spoke of the happiness that was now certainly theirs, of the folly of not breaking sooner out of that magnificent prison of latter-day life, of the old romantic days that had passed from the world for ever.

Have I come to Utopia to hear this sort of thing?

He completely abandoned the child of his marriage with Adelaida Ivanovna, not from malice, nor because of his matrimoni- al grievances, but simply because he forgot him.