Oh how I hate people!

“He had no longer any need for home, for he carried his Gormenghast within him. …”

“Seeing an Earl as an owl on a mantelpiece, and having part of one's face remove…”

“Here, are the stiffening hills, here, the rich cargoCongealed in the dark arter…”

“She had expressed herself, as women will, in a smug broadside of pastel shades.…”