I go to bed early and rise late and feel as if I have hardly slept, probably because I have been reading almost the entire time.

You may want to keep a commonplace book which is a notebook where you can copy parts of books you think are in code, or take notes on a series of events you may have observed that are suspicious, unfortunate, or very dull. Keep your commonplace book in a safe place, such as underneath your bed, or at a nearby dairy.

All his life, Klaus had believed that if you read enough books, you could solve any problem, but now he wasn't so sure.

Why not rise from the grave and terrorize a little instead of staying buried and dead in the cemetery?

A good thing to do when one is sitting, eating, and resting is to have a conversation.

So she loved him. She just did immediately and again often and clearly naturally and soundly and obviously and many others.

Like People, animals will become frightened and likely do whatever you say if you whip them enough.