Well, I suppose one ought not to employ a magician and then complain that he does not behave like other people.

And how shall I think of you?' He considered a moment and then laughed. 'Think of me with my nose in a book!

After two hours it stopped raining and in the same moment the spell broke, which Peroquet and the Admiral and Captain Jumeau knew by a curious twist of their senses, as if they had tasted a string quartet, or been, for a moment, deafened by the sight of colour blue.

There is nothing in the world so easy to explain as failure - it is, after all, what everybody does all the time.

She even learnt the language of a strange country which Senior Cosetti had been told some people believed still existed, although no-one in the world could say where it was. The name of this country was Wales.

you must learn to live as I do - in the face of constant criticism, opposition and censure. That, sir, is the English way.

Mr. Robinson was a polished sort of person. He was so clean and healthy and pleased about everything that he positively shone - which is only to be expected in a fairy or an angel, but is somewhat disconcerting in an attorney.