He groaned slightly and winced, like Prometheus watching his vulture dropping in for lunch. - P. G. Wodehouse

There are girls, few perhaps but to be found if one searches carefully, who when their advice is ignored and disaster ensues, do not say "I told you so". Mavis was not of their number.

And shove him into a dungeon with dripping walls and see to it that he is well gnawed by rats.

Prismatic is the only word for those frightful tweeds and, oddly enough, the spectacle of them had the effect of steadying my nerves. They gave me the feeling that nothing mattered.