One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.
The out-of-date returns in due course as the picturesque.
An ugly voice repels me where an ugly face would not.
It is clear that the books owned the shop rather than the other way about. Everywhere they had run wild and taken possession of their habitat, breeding and multiplying, and clearly lacking any strong hand to keep them down.
It had come about exยญactยญly in the way things hapยญpened in books.
In old days the public didn't really mind much about accuracy, but nowadays readers take it upon themselves to write to authors on every possible occasion, pointing out flaws.