And the man he is talking to has just done a history of the Semitic nations.

He took me down to dinner last night, and we talked in the most intelligent manner about the various ways of preparing crabs.

He liked them in five styles; I wouldn't subscribe to more than three.
That little man with the orchid that daddy has just seized is the author of the last of the 'Rulers of India' series--Sir Somebody Something, K.C.S.I.

My unconscionable humbug of a parent probably wants to get something approaching a fact out of him.

Daddy's writing a thing for one of the reviews on the elective principle for India this week.