'I don't believe you've changed at all, Charles.' 'No, I'm afraid not.' 'D'you want to change?' 'It's the only evidence of life.'

Feather-footed through the plashy fen passes the questing vole.'-William Boot

A typical triumph of modern science to find the only part of Randolph that was not malignant and remove it.

I can't bare you when you're not amusing.

She told me later that she had made a kind of note of me in her mind, as, scanning the shelf for a particular book, one will sometimes have one's attention caught by another, take it down, glance at the title page and saying "I must read that, too, when I've the time," replace it and continue the search.

These memories, which are my life--for we possess nothing certainly except the past--were always with me.

that is not the last word; it is not even an apt word; it is a dead word from ten years back.