"This is home. To every well regulated mind that is the sweetest spot on earth."
"Without any reservation?"
"We do not need to make any when it is such a home as Oaklands."
"Possibly you may think very differently when you get better acquainted with the fascinations of city life."
"One might enjoy both, don't you think, Mr. Winthrop? The contrast would make each more delightful."
"You must try the experiment before you will be able to give a correct decision."
"It seems to me to-night one must be hard to please to want a better home than this, especially with an occasional change to city life. I cannot understand why I have so much more to make life beautiful than others—so many others—have."
"Do you think, then, that your lot is a peculiarly fortunate one?"
"If I did not think so, I would be worse than those Jews who fell to murmuring on their way to Canaan. If they could have made the journey as comfortably as I am doing they would never have said a word, I believe."
"That is quite an original way of putting it. Theologians generally are very severe on the poor Jews."