He had got down to the bones of it, and they were fine and strong and simple.

There was the noise of a bolt shot back, and the door opened a few inches, enough to show a long snout and a pair of sleepy blinking eyes.

It is the restrictions placed on vice by our social code which makes its pursuit so peculiarly agreeable.

Come along inside... We'll see if tea and buns can make the world a better place.

There seemed to be no end to this wood, and no beginning, and no difference in it, and, worse of all, no way out

Then suddenly the Mole felt a great Awe fall upon him, an awe that turned his muscles to water, bowed his head, and rooted his feet to the ground. It was no panic terror - indeed he felt wonderfully at peace and happy - but it was an awe that smote and held him and, without seeing, he knew it could only mean that some august presence was very, very near.

Take the adventure, heed the call, now ere the irrevocable moment passes! 'Tis but a banging of the door behind you, a blithesome step forward, and you are out of your old life and into the new!