I suppose you have read everything." "No, really.

I shall be so glad if you will tell me what to read.

I have been looking into all the books in the library at Offendene, but there is nothing readable.

The leaves all stick together and smell musty.

I wish I could write books to amuse myself, as you can! How delightful it must be to write books after one's own taste instead of reading other people's! Home-made books must be so nice." For an instant Mrs.Arrowpoint's glance was a little sharper, but the perilous resemblance to satire in the last sentence took the hue of girlish simplicity when Gwendolen added-- "I would give anything to write a book!" "And why should you not ?" said Mrs.Arrowpoint, encouragingly.