The Magician

for good and all

'You perspicacity amazes me. I surmise that it is to you I owe this amusing citation which was served on me yesterday.'

I should love to come,' said Susie, with an appealing look at Arthur, 'if only to show you how much more amusing I am than lovely actresses.'

Do you think I would let a bold, bad man like you stare into them with an ophthalmoscope?' laughed Susie.

can't believe that Margaret could have done such a thing,' she went on. 'The more I think of it, the more incredible it seems. I've known Margaret for years, and she was incapable of deceit. She was very kind-hearted. She was honest and truthful. In the first moment of horror, I was only indignant, but I don't want to think too badly of her. There is only one way to excuse her, and that is by supposing she acted under some strange compulsion.'

She reproached Arthur in her heart because he had never understood what was in her.

There was always that violent hunger of the soul which called her to him, and the only happy hours she had were those spent in his company.

He turned his eyes slowly, and they rested upon her. She saw that they were veiled with tears.
'What on earth's the matter?'
'I wish you weren't so beautiful,' he

it related to less wonderful subjects, you would not hesitate to believe implicitly every word you read.

'We should look for knowledge where we may expect to find it, and why should a man be despised who goes in search of it? Those who remain at home may grow richer and live more comfortably than those who wander; but I desire neither to live comfortably nor to grow rich.'