I undertake to catch you somewhere.

I mean to know you, hark you, rather with your assistance than without it.' We were deep in the night.

I had not a single idea ready for delivery.

I could have told him, that wishing was a good thing, excess of tobacco a bad, moderation in speech one of the outward evidences of wisdom; but Ottilia's master in the Humanities exacted civility from me.
'Indeed,' I said, 'I have few thoughts to communicate at present, Herr Professor.

My German will fail me as soon as I quit common ground.