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

Time and I have quarrelled. All hours are midnight now. I had a clock and a watch, but I destroyed them both. I could not bear the way they mocked me.

He gave her his heart. She took it and placed it quietly in the pocket of her gown. No one observed what she did.

She wore a gown the color of storms, shadows, and rain and a necklace of broken promises and regrets.

It has been remarked (by a lady infinitely cleverer than the present author) how kindly disposed the world in general feels to young people who either die or marry.

It is curious and we magicians collect curiosities, you know.

I know magicians and I know magic and I say this: all magicians lie and this one more than most.