‘The Phantom! The Phantom is up from the cellars again!’

I may almost depend on your own justice, and leave it to yourself to pass sentence on your own conduct

If you cooked a tournedo (which is a slice of beef filet), for example, sauced it with a brown sauce of reduced white wine and veal demi-glace, and garnished it with an artichoke bottom filled with little nuggets of potato […]

Cronshaw had told him that the facts of life mattered nothing to him who by the power of fancy held in fee the twin realms of space and time.