...she remembered the Countess of Rotheles's advice, and she well knew the very pointed words and looks Lady Allerton could assume when it suited her humour to be censorious, and was well aware that every particular of the evening's entertainment would be transmitted with a jaundiced tint to Rotheles Castle for the amusement and animadversion of her invalid brother.

The countries are now locked in a permanent state of conflict.

Before we look at the new tools of journalism in the twenty-first centry, it helps to look backwards.

After the funeral there was a lunch for those who didn't go to the cemetery.