"It is n't like any ordinary stupidity; there does n't seem to be any bottom to it, you know; it 's abnormal, it 's fascinating, Polly!" Polly glowed under this unstinted praise.

"I am glad you like it," she said.

"I always like to have a thing first-class of its kind, though I can't pride myself that it compares with your Spanish accent, Edgar; that stands absolutely alone and unapproachable for badness.

I don't worry about my mathematical stupidity a bit since I read Dr.Holmes, who says that everybody has an idiotic area in his mind." There had been very little bookkeeping to-night.

It was raining in torrents.