Sir Nathaniel, as an old diplomatist, had a way of understanding, as if by foreknowledge, the true inwardness of things.

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He was clad in a professional but rather slovenly fashion, for his frock-coat was dingy and his trousers frayed.

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Toronto is continuing to be more than fine. This Saturday, I traversed the city with comrades till the early hours of the morning as it was Nuit Blanche, a free all-night art show throughout Toronto. 'Twas rather lovely ( Read more... )

This unexpected band of auxiliaries arrived in Paris on the tenth of January and the Prince of Conti was named...generalissimo of the army of the king.

Toronto is going well. Lots of work, well lots of reading, but smooth sailing. It has finally gotten autumnal, frabjous day calloo callay!

This one is a bit easy but it made me laugh so I'll share it anyway ( Read more... )

I am there and online!

All right, in an effort to keep myself updating this thing, I have decided to start a semi-daily feature! Through my iGoogle dealio, I get this Word of the Day feature which often has hilariously phrased example sentences for words that do not exactly do service to explain the word, but they read like they are from 19th-century novels. So whenever ( Read more... )

About a week and a half to go to D-Day. I am in a constant state of considerable nervous apprehension. 

I went to Assinaboine Park this evening with my parents to take a lovely walk and all the equipment for the Canada Day festivities was scattered about. Upon these things was written the name of the event. Not the Canada Day Picnic, which you might think it would be. It said Canad Day Picnic, because Canad Inns is sponsoring that. I was shocked and ( Read more... )

I hate the neighbours two houses over. These are the ones who regularly throw throw parties on every summer weekend night and shriek and make a ruckus till 5 in the morning. Annoying, but it's the weekend, so I am not too bothered about it (unless it is those weekends that I have to get to work by 9:30 AM, then I am enraged). But now they have the ( Read more... )