I was still pausing and blinking on every other page.

As were we all. Many of us knew the English, Scots and French history and language, maybe even the Italian - but that and the Irish? And the Turkish? And the Maltese? And the Russian?

"'You're the cleverest drunken lecher I know; and the only one who'd stand there and give me the chance to say it,"

Loved that, too!