“My Continental prominence is improving,” I commented dryly. ¶ Von Lindowe cut at a furze bush with his silver-mounted rattan. ¶ “Quite so,” he said as dryly, his hand at his mustache. “I may say if your intentions were known your life would not be worth a curse.”

She's costing us a lot in incidentals.

The captain went forward interfering rather than assisting. I was alternately despairful and desperate.

When Valette, following Bonnier's philosophy, proposed to women that they adopt sexualism as their true religion, she recast an old idea.