You will recognise in the two or three ladies of the empire how faithfully I have studied my Gibbon.

Poor dear old Belisarius! I have done the best I could with Joanna, but I could not bring myself to care for her.

In our days she would simply have gone to Broadmore.

I hope you will not think that I have been too strong in my delineations of Henry VIII and his sinful but unfortunate Howard.

I don't care a bit about Anne Boleyne.