Sharp-quiffed young men in navy-blue blazers and grey flannel trousers.

My other name's Bill, he said. I was christened Bill but Mr Thursgood calls me William. / Bill, eh. The unpaid Bill. Anyone ever call you that? / No, sir. / Good name, anyway. / Yes, sir. / Known a lot of Bills. They've all been good 'uns.

Lipsius was replaced at Leyden by Joseph Justus Scaliger (1540-1609), the French Protestant scholar who was known to contemporaries as the bottomless pit of erudition.

Now, you must know that Cinderella had a godmother, - - - . The little old lady sat down upon a small log of wood on the opposite side, and said ,― Why, Cindy, my darling, you have been crying?