This is a very grave matter, punishable by...well, I do not exactly know what, but something rather severe, I should imagine.

Ha!' said the tall man drily. 'He was in high luck. Rich old uncles who die are in shockingly short supply.

The governess was not much liked in the village. She was too tall, too fond of books, too grave, and, a curious thing, never smiled unless there was something to smile at.

What nobility of feeling! To sacrifice your own pleasure to preserve the comfort of others! It is a thing, I confess, that would never occur to me.

You mean to say he became mad deliberately?' ...Nothing is more likely,' said the duke.

Unfortunately, Childermass's French was so strongly accented by his native Yorkshire that Minervois did not understand and asked Strange if Childermass was Dutch.

He understood for the first time that the world is not dumb at all, but merely waiting for someone to speak to it in a language it understands.