Borborygmus,
You remember the Gordon riots, and all the tales about the Jesuits being behind the King’s madness and many other things. By the way, Stephen, those Fathers were not Jesuits, I suppose? I did not like...
You are to consider that a certain melancholy and often a certain irascibility accompany advancing age: indeed it might be said that advancing age equals ill-temper. On reaching the middle years a man...
Why, sir, said he, looking about him, what splendour I see: gold lace, breeches, cocked hats. Allow me to recommend a sandwich. And would you be contemplating an attack, at all?It had crossed my mind,...
Why, sir, what's all this? Surely you have not forgot you are entertaining the Captain?''And how am I supposed to entertain the Captain, for all love?' asked Stephen. 'Am I to grin at him through a ho...
What is Catalan?''Why, the language of Catalonia – of the islands, of the whole of the Mediterranean coast down to Alicante and beyond. Of Barcelona. Of Lerida. All the richest part of the peninsula.'...
We must phrase it with great care, pointing out most respectfully that we will be damned if we receive him on board rather than one of the two other gentlemen we have put in for.
Two blue jackets, sir, one pea jacket, two pair of blue trousers, two pair of shoes, six shirts, four pairs of stockings, two Guernsey frocks, two hats, two black Barcelona handkerchiefs, a comforter,...
Touch and away, Jack?’ asked Stephen. ‘Touch and away? Do you not recall that I have important business there? Enquiries of the very first interest?’To do with our enterprise? To do with this voyage?’...
They made him [Stephen] a little canvas boat, and it was thought that if he were obliged to wear two sea-elephant's bladders, blown up and attached to his person, he could not come to harm in such a p...
Put those pistols down at once,’ he said coldly. ‘Do not you know it is very rude to point a pistol at a person you do not mean to kill? For shame, Villiers. Where were you brought up?
Perhaps there will be news from home waiting for us there. Lord, how I should love to know how things are going.’ ‘Oh so should I,’ cried Stephen. ‘Though it is not yet possible that there should be w...
Oh, Captain Aubrey,' cried she, 'I have a service to beg of you.'Mrs Fielding had but to command, said Jack, smiling at her with great affection; he was at her orders entirely - very happy - delighted...
Now listen, Jack, will you? I am somewhat given to lying: my occasions require it from time to time.But I do not choose to have any man alive tell me of it.
Lord Nelson’s maxim ‘Never mind manoeuvres: always go straight at ’em.
Jack had never been a hypocrite until he became a father, and even now it did not come easy.
It is only that I dislike the whole notion of subordination. The corporal lurks in almost every bosom, and each man tends to use authority when he has it, thus destroying his natural relationship with...
I wonder, James, whether it is not too easy for a rich man to despise money
I will
I have often observed that extremely violent noise and activity go with good-fellowship and heightened spirits.