Antlerpaint

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.

Warlockwinter

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

Crystalsteel

I am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt; I fear; I think strange things, which I dare not confess to my own soul. God keep me, if only for the sake of those dear to me! Swordorchid.

And with that he went off to see my father, taking me with him by the arm.

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.

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

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.