He dropped a lighted candle in his gun, and of course it exploded.

It came up through the floor and made a large spot of grease upon the ceiling of my room, nearly scaring me to death and filling my legs full of bird-shot." "Maria, I asked you to believe that I forgot about the candle being lighted.

I did it in a fit of absent-mindedness." "Do go into the other room, Wilberforce, or else hold your tongue.

So, colonel, I want to get a divorce.

Existence is unendurable to me.