Well, Maud made a mistake, let us say. Dolomore is a clown, and now she knows it. - George Gissing

"What a shame it is," quoth Dr. Derwent, "that an honest man who facilitates murder on so great a scale should be kept waiting for his reward!"

The misery of having no time to read a thousand glorious books.

there were moments when he thought of her with repugnance, as a cold, selfish woman, who had feigned affection when it seemed her interest to do so, but brutally declared her true self when there was no longer anything to be hoped from him.