"But, of course, you can marry anybody you like, and why not the dark lady?
On the whole, though, if I were you, I would like to astonish the natives before I left.

Now, you might buy the castle here and turn it into a hotel." "Horrible!" ejaculated Claudius.
"No worse than making a hotel of Switzerland, which is an older and more interesting monument than the castle of Heidelberg." "Epigrammatic, but fallacious, Mr.Barker." "Epigrams and proverbs are generally that." "I think," said Claudius, "that proverbs are only fallacious when they are carelessly applied." "Very likely.

Life is too short to waste time over weapons that will only go off in some singular and old-fashioned way.

When I start out to do any shooting, I want to hit." So they went to dinner.

Claudius found himself becoming gayer in the society of his new acquaintance than he had been for some time past.