The best way is to read it all every day from the start, correcting as you go along, then go on from where you stopped the day before. When it gets so long that you can't do this every day read back two or three chapters each day; then each week read it all from the start. That's how you make it all of one piece.

I was young and not gloomy and there were always strange and comic things that happened in the worst time.

But did thee feel the earth move?

Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you.

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

The world was not wheeling anymore. It was just very clear and bright and inclined to blur at the edges.

Try and write straight English; never using slang except in dialogue and then only when unavoidable. Because all slang goes sour in a short time. I only use swear words, for example, that have lasted at least a thousand years for fear of getting stuff that will be simply timely and then go sour.