Then why, he was asked, did he write a book that seems to justify nonreading?

Flora, however, received the remark as if it had been of a most apposite and agreeable nature; approvingly observing aloud that Mr. F's Aunt had a great deal of spirit.

Reconciliation cannot eventuate or materialise until the proper legal procedures have been followed, that is without interference from external forces.

Several years earlier, she had arranged to bring three pairs of the rapidly vanishing ‘ō‘ō bird from Hawai‘i island to Kaua‘i, hoping they would form a new colony.