Writing about the Sea-Kings is all very well in its way, but I am no born literary man.

I must get that book finished and published, though.

It might help me with the constituency.
A book gives a man distinction." "You seem to me to have changed very much." "No; it's only that you didn't know me thoroughly.

To tell you the truth, that life of hiding away in London wasn't a very good thing for me.

I lived too much to myself.