growing accustomed to Quotes

″‘I am myself unaccustomed to be kissed, but it is an operation to which I may accustom myself in time.’ ‘I never heard it called an operation, uncle,’ Lizzie said demurely, ‘but I now understand the meaning of the phrase of a man’s undergoing a painful operation.‘”

″‘I am myself unaccustomed to be kissed, but it is an operation to which I may accustom myself in time.’ ‘I never heard it called an operation, uncle,’ Lizzie said demurely, ‘but I now understand the meaning of the phrase of a man’s undergoing a painful operation.‘”

“He had grown so used to seeing death . . . that it seemed no longer dark and mysterious. He feared his heart had been touched by the fire so often he might never make a civilian again.”