had led her to consider Mr. van der Luyden’s least gesture as having an almost sacerdotal importance.

Only old Catherine Mingott, with her absence of moral prejudices and almost parvenu indifference to the subtler distinctions

why they had allowed him to accept failure so stolidly at an age when most men are still struggling

these two they had sedulously avoided, in conformity with the old New York tradition that it was not “dignified” to force one’s self on the notice of one’s acquaintances in foreign countries

Archer looked with a sort of vicarious envy at this eager impecunious young man who had fared so richly in his poverty.

the pearl necklace which he had presented to his wife on his return was as magnificent as such expiatory offerings are apt to be