I suppose it is only another of the immortal errors with which mankind hedges itself about." "You think it an error ?" said Lewis, with such an air of relief that George began to laugh and Wratislaw looked comically suspicious.
"Why the tone of joy, Lewie ?" "I wanted your opinion," said the perjured young man.

"I thought of writing a book.

But that is not the thing I was talking about.

I want to be normal, aggressively normal, to court the suffrages of Gledsmuir.
Do you know Stocks ?" "Surely." "An excellent person, but I never heard him utter a word above a child's capacity.

He can talk the most shrieking platitudes as if he had found at last the one and only truth.