Goresthorpe Grange is a feudal mansion - or so it was termed in the advertisement which originally brought it under my notice. Its right to this adjective had a most remarkable effect upon its price, and the advantages gained may possibly be more sentimental than real. Still, it is soothing to me to know that I have slits in my staircase through which I can discharge arrows; and there is a sense of power in the fact of possessing a complicated apparatus by means of which I am enabled to pour molten lead upon the head of the casual visitor.

I am not the law, but I represent justice so far as my feeble powers go.

I am the most incurably lazy devil that ever stood in shoe leather.

It is horrible, yet fascinating, this struggle between a set purpose and an utterly exhausted frame.

It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.

The unexpected has happened so continually in my life that it has ceased to deserve the name.

You have been in Afghanistan I perceive.