He has a rarefaction of the brain and his brains have leaked into his ears.
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"What? Writers? If you like, for a shilling I'll make a writer of you."
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Instead of translator, contractor.
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An actress, forty years old, ugly, ate a partridge for dinner, and I felt sorry for the partridge, for it occurred to me that in its life it had been more talented, more sensible, and more honest than that actress.
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The doctor said to me: "If," says he, "your constitution holds out, drink to your heart's content." (Gorbunov.)
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