“ Mannerism, especially when it takes the form of recurrent word or phrase, is by no means easy to represent; there is but a hair's breadth between the point at which the reader delightfully recognizes… Mary Lascelles
“ The artist (I suppose) usually pays for the privilege by some sort of partial insomnia, by the possession of one faculty that will not be controlled nor put to sleep. In a poet this must often be the… Mary Lascelles
“ A story conducted by the time of a clock and calendars alone would be a story not of human beings but of mechanical toys. Mary Lascelles
“ A clever girl may pass through the phase of foolish miss on the way to sensible woman. Mary Lascelles
“ When many story-tellers occupy themselves with a social world which offers no great variety of lively action, their stories will probably resemble one another as to many of the major incidents, and if… Mary Lascelles
