Sometimes I return to them for a month or two.' 'Why, it's pretty much the same with me.

Here on my table, for instance, lies Tacitus.

I found it mentioned not long ago that the first sentence of the _Annals_ is a hexameter--did you know it ?--and when I had once got hold of the book I thought it a shabby thing to return it to the dust of its shelf without reading at least a few pages.

So I have gone on from day to day, with no little enjoyment.
Buckland, as you probably know, regards these old fellows with scorn.' 'We always differed about that.' 'I can't quite decide whether he is still sincere in all he says about them.

Time, I suspect, is mellowing his judgment.' They moved to the shelves where Greek and Latin books stood in serried order, and only the warning dinner-bell put an end to their sympathetic discussion of the place such authors should hold in modern educational systems.
'Have they shown you your room ?' Mr.Warricombe asked.
But, as he spoke, the face of his eldest son appeared at the door.
'Your traps have safely arrived, Peak.' The bedroom to which Godwin was conducted had a delicious fragrance, of source indeterminable.