Father may have been wanting in some things, but here he was masterful. Night upon night, I marveled at his power to hold listeners in rapt attention. He could tell a story with such detail, such flourish, that afterwards a man could swear it had been his own memory, and not a tale at all.
Seth Grahame-SmithThe business of Mr. Bennett's life was to keep his daughters alive. The business of Mrs. Bennett's was to get them married.
Seth Grahame-Smith