"If you have begun it, you ought to go on with it." "Oh, don't trouble your mind about that," she said, with a laugh.

"I have finished it, but I have not read a word of the beginning.

I only looked at the end of it, to see how the story turned out.

I always do that, before I read a novel." This remark much amused Lawrence.

"Do you know," said he, "that I would rather not read novels at all, than to read them in that way.