Tell the story of his bribing the cook to poison me, and I'll buy two hundred copies straight away.

I've always wanted to be put into a novel, and I should like to go down to posterity side by side with Meldon." "I wish I could." "There's no difficulty that I can see.

He'll do equally well for a hero or a villain." "I'm afraid all the other characters would look like fools.

That's the difficulty." "They would," said the judge.

"I'm very much afraid they would.
Perhaps after all you'd better not put me in.