to traverse a cannon

“You expect me to believe you have an Exec crèchemate?” He curled his lip and leaned in close.

Juliet's worldweariness and face-powder dry wit make her an affecting, engaging companion, but not necessarily one to love: she lacks the warmth of Atkinson's most compelling characters.

A prison is but a retirement, and opportunity of serious thoughts, to a person whose spirit[…]desires no enlargement beyond the cancels of the body.