Thanks to the circumstances of her birth and upbringing Jane Oglander might conceivably have lived a long beneficent life, and have finally slipped out of that life without becoming aware that there were such tragic things as sin, shame, and acute suffering in the world.
"Jane Oglander"
Marie Belloc Lowndes
It was so strange, so tragic, too, that he should have died in the way he had died, of fever.
"Jane Oglander"
Marie Belloc Lowndes
It is a terrible thing to lure a weak man to dishonor; it is still more tragic and awful when that man is bought so his lie may hurt another.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook