It is written, and it does give orders for a crime.

You might as well say that the Nelson Column was not at all the sort of thing that was likely to be set up in Trafalgar Square." Basil Grant shook all over with a sort of silent laughter, but did not otherwise move.
"That's rather good," he said; "but, of course, logic like that's not what is really wanted.

It's a question of spiritual atmosphere.

It's not a criminal letter." "It is.

It's a matter of fact," cried the other in an agony of reasonableness.
"Facts," murmured Basil, like one mentioning some strange, far-off animals, "how facts obscure the truth.