Francis William Lauderdale Adams

“ I never was made for editing other people's books. I lack patience, and the worst of it is, that I don't believe that anyone can do anything worth calling thing without patience. The Professor is Job and Griselda put into one.
'After a week's hard work we have arranged the stuff,—I should say materials or notes, I suppose,—into something like chronological order, having separated the whole mass into three almost equal parts: to wit, The Travels in Palestine and parts of Arabia, The Expedition from South Africa upwards, and the last Expedition to Injiji. ”

“ Miss Connie, however, resolutely refuses to be drawn into discussion of anything deeper than flirting, and I respect her for it. She is a frank little sensualist. Take it all in all, the womenkind I have so far met with have been of a most God-forsaken sort. There is not one that has seemed to me worth more than a mild sort of feeling that might by some be denominated "lust." ”

“ At times we came upon whole pages of, what I dare say were abbreviations, but which were to us absolutely meaningless signs: then there were long extemporary prayers, coupled with the most childish virulent attacks on different scientific men of the day and Christians whose conceptions of Christianity were different to Brooke's own. ”

“ Brooke, I must say, seems to have taken a good deal more pains over his own particular mania than over his friend's. Great parts of this second Journal are continuous narrative that (thank God) require nothing on our part. ”

“ In the first place the writing is fearful. He seems to have thought it quite enough to write the first three or four letters of a word, for the rest is nearly always comprised in a twirl. Now this is aggravating to the son of man. Then, the Journal is broken off by chance notes, and these notes have references to other note-books, and so on. ”

“ She seems to look upon me as lawful prey in the matter of endurance of female agacerie. Sometimes I grow mischievous, and talk "atheism" to the young women she puts me with, or who are put with me, or whatever the real case may be. ”

“ He arranged to come to Dunraven Place the next morning, and we would then proceed to examine the work that was before us.
After we had talked a little on general subjects, he asked me to go up with him and have some tea with Mrs. Strachan in the drawing-room. Up, then, we went and into the drawing-room, where we found three womenkind, one middle-aged and two young, to whom I was presented: Mrs. and the two Miss Strachans. Mrs. ”