I get tired of telling the same tales so many times over.

Suppose I join you fellows, eh?
I'm at the Royal.

You at the other place?
Suppose I join you after dinner, and we have a pipe together on the veranda ?" "Nothing I'd like better," said Fred, and I felt too pleased with the prospect to say anything at all.

Growing old is a foolish and unnecessary business, but there is no need to forego while young the thrills of unashamed hero-worship; in fact, that is one of the ways of continuing young.

It is only the disillusioned (poor deceived ones) and the cynics, who grow old ungracefully.
We went upstreet, through the shadow of the great grim fort.