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

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

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

But, though French, she was also very brave.

I am, as far as I can tell, about a month behind Lord Byron. In every town we stop at we discover innkeepers, postillions, officials, burghers, potboys, and all kinds and sorts of ladies whose brains still seem somewhat deranged from their brief exposure to his lordship. And though my companions are careful to tell people that I am that dreadful being, an English magician, I am clearly nothing in comparison to an English poet and everywhere I go I enjoy the reputation- quite new to me, I assure you- of the quiet, good Englishman, who makes no noise and is no trouble to any one.

An explorer cannot stay at home reading maps other men have made.

Well, Henry, you can cease frowning at me. If I am a magician, I am a very indifferent one. Other adepts summon up fairy-spirits and long-dead kings. I appear to have conjured the spirit of a banker.