4 Quotes by Carola Oman

Hasn’t it gone into a cheap edition?” “I am glad to say it has,” affirmed Miss Masquerier, brightening. “Now I am so interested to hear that you are pleased about that,” said little Mrs. Mimms, to whom prolonged silence was an impossibility, whatever the circumstances. “I never know myself whether it is a good thing or a bad thing for an author when their books are sold off cheap.

She stopped also to choose her favourite lamb, which had, she said, a face which showed her what people meant when they said that other people were perfect lambs.

He told me that his family was very ancient, and that when there was a Nazi rally in the nearest town, his father had to send tenants, and he was generally sent with them,” said Rosemary, “but generally managed to get nose-bleed and slip out soon. I asked him if he wasn’t afraid of being hounded to death by the Gestapo for doing that, and he looked very uncomfortable.

I found that I was sitting for that examination on the exact anniversary of my last shot at it – quarter of a century ago – January 16th, 1914. And what’s more, under the questions, I had scribbled, in the high spirits natural to sweet seventeen, ‘Never again! not if I know it!’ Before I returned that paper to its file,” said Miss Morrison, “I added the words, ‘First Aid taken again January 16th, 1939. I did not know.