Sir Reginald Wingate, High Commissioner in Egypt, was happy for the success of the work he had advocated for years. I grudged him this happiness; for McMahon, who took the actual risk of starting it, had been broken just before prosperity began.

Dickens's architextures do not present us with a form – of a building, of the city – as a meaning, system or structure. Rather, we are presented with the textual event, the architextural event, as a means of exposing the limits of fixed meaning, and, by this, the limits of the utterable.

Opined one Kossack: His blood is also on Bush's hands.

Lord, what thou doest noo, an' why, We maunna seek to ken; But sune the sweet hereafter comes, An' thou wilt tell us then.