'The saddest of fates is to die and meet destiny from hunger?'
'I'm so glad his choice suits you, mother, and he is spared the saddest sort of disappointment.'
This compatibility of ill temper with high moral character is one of the strangest and saddest problems of ethics.
The strangest and saddest result, consequent on the suppression of the convents, was that men were made to profit by the loss which women had sustained.