I have said I was still in darkness, yet it was not the blackness of the last night; and looking up into the inside of the tomb above, I could see the faintest line of light at one corner, which showed the sun was up.

The demon of stupidity haunts me whenever I open my mouth.

[…] Doth our doughty Captain go birdsnesting and nutting in his bytimes?

Youngers did not like olders to be mean and bossy.