I know that it spans only twenty years, yet I am an old man.

In reality her face, without appearing to do so, had caught the cold gleam of day from the north-east; his own face, though he did not think of it, wore the same aspect to her.

He discovered he could usually get his partners into bed on the first date - sometimes within the first hour of meeting.

Whom I have sent unto you for the same purpose, that ye might know our affairs, and that he might comfort your hearts.

For many decades now I have been a fiction writer, and from the first I was aware that mine was a questionable occupation.