Hilaire Belloc

“ Kirby genially, "this is Mr. Brassington."
Young men do not control their faces well (unless they are the sons of scoundrels and have inherited their fathers' talents) . Jimmy looked exactly like a man who knows nothing of the sea and has just come to the lump on the bar.
Mr. Brassington gave a very violent movement, which Mr. Kirby, his arm securely linked in his friend's, checked with a wrench of iron.
"You don't know Professor Higginson, I think, do you, Brassington?"
"Mr. McAuley," said Mr. Kirby genially, "this is Mr. Brassington." ”

“ How the Guelph University looked when it found there was no Ten Thousand Pounds at all after Professor Higginson's death none of us know, for the old idiot is not yet dead. How they will look does not matter in the least, for the whole boiling of them are only people in a story, and there is an end of them. ”

“ You have nothing to recover but revenge, and if you take that revenge you publicly ruin your own son, you make yourself a laughing stock, you throw away your future honours and his, and you disgrace a man of high Academic distinction whom you know perfectly well to have acted only weakly and foolishly. ”