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

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

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

..The argument he was conducting with his neighbor as to whether the English magician had gone mad because he was a magician, or because he was English.

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

It was an old fashioned house --the sort of house in fact, as Strange expressed it, which a lady in a novel might like to be persecuted in.

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.