It's very good of you--" "No, no, not at all. It's my hobby. Not proposing to people, I don't mean, but investigating things. Well, cheer-frightfully-ho and all that. And I'll call again, if I may." "I will give the footman orders to admit you," said the prisoner, gravely, "you will always find me at home.

To make a precise scientific description of reality out of words is like trying to build a rigid structure out of pure quicksilver.

What? Sunday morning in an English family and no sausages? God bless my soul, what's the world coming to, eh?

No, no, there must be a limit to the baseness even of publishers.

Some people's blameless lives are to blame for a good deal.

Don't be so damned discouraging," said Wimsey. "I have already carefully explained to you that this time I am investigating this business. Anybody would think you had no confidence in me." "People have been wrongly condemned before now." "Exactly; simply because I wasn't there." "I never thought of that.

The young were always theoretical; only the middle-aged could realize the deadliness of principles.