Another dead body. Every year it is the same. Every year, another dead body.

Emerson,' I said, choosing my words with care, 'it is a sheer drop from the cleft down to the base of the cliff. If you are bent on breaking your arm or your leg or your neck or all three, find a place closer to home so we won't have to carry you such a distance.

I don't think she realized how much she cared for him, or he for her, until the end. Hasn't someone said a woman may be known by the men who love her enough to die for her? (If they haven't, I claim the credit myself.)

Ramses had always been fond of Helen, in his peculiar fashion, but if he had looked at me as he was looking at her, I would have sent for a constable.

Giving other people advice is one of the most irritating and useless activities known to man.

Husbands do not care to be contradicted. Indeed, I do not know anyone who does.

But the dust! And the clutter! My housewifely and scholarly instincts were equally offended.