In view of this and other things, I demand forgiveness for being so obviously impressed with my own parents.
"Still, not to be English is hardly regarded as a fatal deficiency even by the English, though grave enough to warrant sympathy.
(Quoting her friend Tom Black on an amateur hunter's injury:) "Lion, rifles -- and stupidity.
Talk lives in a man’s head, but sometimes it is very lonely because in the heads of many men there is nothing to keep it company - and so talk goes out through the lips.
All this, and discontent too! Otherwise, why am I sitting here dreaming of England? Why am I gazing at this campfire like a lost should seeking a hope when all that I love is at my wingtips? Because I am curious. Because I am incorrigibly, now, a wan...
