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21 " Michael could hear him yawning. At last he said, ‘That cider has made me quite sleepy.’ ‘Well, go to sleep then,’ said Michael. ‘Oh, no,’ said Toby. ‘I’m not as sleepy as all that.’ In a few minutes he was asleep. "
― Iris Murdoch , The Bell
22 " By a dialectic well known to those who habitually succumb to temptation he passed in a second from the time when it was too early to struggle to the time when it was too late to struggle. "
23 " There were many people, she said, and Michael was but too ready to credit her since he felt himself to be one of them, who can live neither in the world nor out of it. They are a kind of sick people, whose desire for God makes them unsatisfactory citizens of an ordinary life, but whose strength or temperament fails them to surrender the world completely; and present-day society, with its hurried pace and its mechanical and technical structure, offers no home to these unhappy souls. "
24 " Still, everyone appeared to be extremely nice, except that that Dr Greenfield man was a trifle rebarbative. (This was a word which Toby had recently learnt at school and could not now conceive of doing without.) "