The Wind in the Willows: The Original 1908 Unabridged and Complete Edition (Kenneth Grahame Classics)

by Kenneth Grahame

the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working.

‘Badger hates Society, and invitations, and dinner, and all that sort of thing.’

which is the last thing the skilled actor shall capture—the natural grace which goes with perfect unconsciousness of observation.

Isn’t it jolly to feel the sun again, soaking into one’s bones!

and with them his pocket-book, money, keys, watch, matches, pencil-case—all that makes life worth living,

‘Tis but a banging of the door behind you, a blithesome step forward, and you are out of the old life and into the new!