"Sir!" she checked him. "I think you are talking treason." "I hope I am not obscure," said he. — Rafael Sabatini

"It was heroic!"

"Heroic, is it? Bedad, it's epic! Ye begin to perceive the breadth and depth of my genius."

Mr Pollexfen was at one and the same time right and wrong—a condition much more common than is generally supposed.