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

The land is all too shallow It is painted on the sky And trembles like the wind-shook rain When the Raven King passed by

It would need someone very remarkable to recover your name, Stephen, someone of rare perspicacity, with extraordinary talents and incomparable nobility of character. Me, in fact.

Magic, madam, is like wine and, if you are not used to it, it will make you drunk.

Drawing teaches habits of close observation that will always be useful.

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

To be more precise it was the color of heartache.