…the long blue shadows of afternoon advanced before me like cheerful ghosts of last summer’s growth, dancing past the withered flower borders and the stiff hedges to fall at the feet of a stone nymph,...

The fate of all things cherished and expensive, to be lost at hazard, and well before their time

Is lawlessness to be permitted, simply because it is effected with a certain style? Jane, Jane! Where are your finer sensibilities? All o’erthrown, by a man with a golden tongue and a mocking glance?