"'——a book which tempts the reader to peruse from end to end when once he picks it up.'"
"'Read at a Sitting: A Study in Colour.'"
"Please, Mr. Brown, don't take that down."
"Thank you, Lady Mickleham," said I. "Litera scripta manet."
"You are not the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Carter, and you must break yourself of the habit."
"The next cutting?"
"The next says, 'For Mr. Carter, the hero or reporter——'"
"It's a calumny. I don't know a single shorthand symbol."
"Let me go on. 'Reporter of these polite conversations, we confess we have no particular liking.'"
"If you assure me you did not write this yourself, Lady Mickleham, I care not who did."