'They are rather Boojums,' he declared.
'You would think so, too, if you knew them better.

It is that kind of excellent person that makes the real burden of India.' I could have patted him on the back.
Thanks to the rest of the chorus, which proved abundantly available, I was no immediate witness to Cecily's introduction to the glorious fragments which sustain in Agra the memory of the moguls.

I may as well say that I arranged with care that if anybody must be standing by when Dacres disclosed them, it should not be I.If Cecily had squinted, I should have been sorry, but I would have found in it no personal humiliation.

There were other imperfections of vision, however, for which I felt responsible and ashamed; and with Dacres, though the situation, Heaven knows, was none of my seeking, I had a little the feeling of a dealer who offers a defective bibelot to a connoisseur.

My charming daughter--I was fifty times congratulated upon her appearance and her manners--had many excellent qualities and capacities which she never inherited from me; but she could see no more than the bulk, no further than the perspective; she could register exactly as much as a camera.
This was a curious thing, perhaps, to displease my maternal vanity, but it did; I had really rather she squinted; and when there was anything to look at I kept out of the way.