Friendpale

The Nellie, a cruising yawl, swung to her anchor without a flutter of the sails, and was at rest.

Horsepepper

It is no doubt an optimistic enterprise. But it is good for awhile to be free from the carping note that must needs be audible when we discuss our present imperfections, to release ourselves from practical difficulties and the tangle of ways and means. It is good to stop by the track for a space, put aside the knapsack, wipe the brows, and talk a little of the upper slopes of the mountain we think we are climbing, would but the trees let us see it

Huntervaliant

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! Vipervine.

But what sort of language would we have the world speak, if we were told the miracle of Babel was presently to be reversed?

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

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