Most fahscinating! Oh-h!" Poor Tom's elephantine delight over anything like a simile was always emphatic, no matter whether he saw the exact point or not, and I'm afraid that brilliant folk would have thought him perilously like a fool.

Happily his companions were ladies and gentlemen who were too simple to sneer, and they laughed kindly at all the big man's floundering ecstasies.
Ferrier said, "When I have got what I want, I shall vary your programme if you will permit me.

Do you know, it struck me that those good souls are very like a live lizard cased in the dry clay?
He fits his mould, but he doesn't see out of it.

I should like to give the men a little wider horizon." "Isn't heaven wide enough ?" "But your men are always staring _up_ at heaven.

Could you not give them a chance of looking _round_ a bit ?" "What are you driving at ?" "Mr.Ferrier means that they do not employ all their faculties.