Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale. - Nathaniel Hawthorne

I shall do better amongst other faces; and these familiar ones, it need hardly be said, will do just as well without me.

Is it a fact – or have I dreamt it – that, by means of electricity, the world of matter has become a great nerve, vibrating thousands of miles in a breathless point of time?

So, to their own unutterable torment, they go about among their fellow-creatures, looking pure as new-fallen snow, while their hearts are all speckled and spotted with iniquity of which they cannot rid themselves.