Some readers will perhaps regard the resolution of “Hercules” and “Cacus” into allegorical representations of the conflicting agencies of Light and Darkness (p. 31), and the blending into one of Æneas and Latinus, as well as of one or two other mythical personages, as a leaf out of what Sir George Lewis would have called the “Ægyptological method of writing History”;

[T]hey kin always do a mouth transplant on ya. Be a big improvement over the piehole you was born with.

to die by inches

my business was great ; and in such a case as mine , a man may strain courtesy