I have known him since he was a toddler.

His mother was one of the beauties, when I first put on a cuirass." Zara tried to control her interest, and merely said, "Yes ?" "Are you looking forward to the reception at Wrayth on Monday?
I always wonder how a person unaccustomed to England would view all the speeches and dinners, the bonfire, and triumphal arches, and those things of a home-coming.

Rather an ordeal, I expect." Zara's eyes rounded, and she faltered, "And shall I have to go through all that ?" The Crow was nonplussed.

Had not her husband, then, told her, what every one else knew?
Upon what terms could they possibly be?
And before he was aware of it, he had blurted out, "Good Lord!" Then, recollecting himself, he said, "Why, yes.

Tristram will say I have been frightening you.