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So I told him what was in fact not the truth, that I usually had a glass of champagne about that time, and asked him to join me.

It seemed to me I grew younger daily with each adult habit I acquired. [...] I was being given a brief spell of what I had never known, a happy childhood, and though its toys were silk shirts and liqueurs and cigars and its naughtiness high in the catalogue of grave sins, there was something of a nursery freshness about us that fell little short of the joy of innocence.

[N]o one minds a man getting tight once or twice a term. In fact he ought to on certain occasions.

You can't be doing any work. Not that it madders particularly if you're making something of your career elsewhere - but are you?

None of these people you go about with pull any weight in their own colleges, and that's the real test. They think because they've got a lot of money to throw about, they can do anything.

The lovely daughter whom Lady Marchmain is bringing out this season ... witty as well as ornamental ... the most popular débutante.

I suppose that Julia must have her enjoyment the same as other young ladies, though what they always want to go to London for in the best of the summer and the gardens all out, I have never understood.

I think it's terribly brilliant of Sebastian to have discovered you. Where do you lurk?

Eash as he came into the room [...] noticed Sebastian and myself with a polite lack of curiosity which seemed to say: "W should not dream of being so offensive as to suggest you never met us before."

It was typical of him, I reflected, to assume I knew where he lived; but, then, I did know.