It was going to be difficult to give the impression of duchessly serenity and authority if she kept going astray in her own home, and she was considering asking Jack to draw her a map when she heard voices approaching round a blind corner.
This is the true Monsieur [Gaston, Duke of Orléans], who ever stands stradling, and when he converses even with the civillest Ladies, faces them in the same posture, ordering and tossing his Pike, with his hands in his Cod-piece.
I spent my adolescence touch-typing, convinced my life would be passed secretarially, my left pinkie building novelty muscle manning the A. Then the technology changed, and I improvised an inelegant three-finger style for computer keyboards.
But if you then decide you can afford to plant the trees anyway, whatever the effect on the landscape, flora and fauna, nobody can stop you — and again, no-one is going to ask you to unplant them once they're in the ground.
