He had been walking for a long time, ever since dark in fact, and dark falls soon in December. – Charlotte Riddell (1832–1906), “The Old House in Vauxhall Walk,” 1882 [Her
People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins they wonder whether they are catching cold. – John Jay Chapman
