Current Favourite Sentences

    "What?" he began, noticing the difference in costume, but deciding to treat the encounter as if it had been fatally ordained since the beginning of things, "Have you come at last?"
    "Has it seemed so long?" said Amy, inspired by her wicked new frock, and by her knowledge of his reputation, to adopt that bright tone of sexual gallantry which she understood to prevail in the glittering circles in which he moved.
    "Eternity!" he replied, with mechanical efficiency.