Henry Winterfeld Quotes

″‘It isn’t a person,’ Antonius insisted. ‘It’s a ghost. A ghost can’t suffocate.’ ‘Shut up!’ Mucius snapped. ‘Ghosts don’t sit in wardrobes in the morning.‘”

“The burglar who did this may be studying mathematics and doesn’t have the money to buy books. He heard that you were a famous mathematician and so he came here and hit you on the head...”

″‘You talk too much,’ their teacher commented. ‘Your tongue will be your undoing one of these days.’ Alarmed, Antonius squinted at the tip of his tongue.”

“We shall exile Caius. He won’t be allowed to play with us, and none of us must talk to him.”

“Caius is a dumbbell.”

″‘He must have gone off his head,’ said Publius. ‘If Caius’ father sees it, there will be trouble!′ The boys threw anxious glances at the senator’s house. Vinicius took the worship of the gods very seriously, and was a great admirer of the Emperor.”

“If it is his handwriting, there can be no doubt that he did it. I shall go personally to the prefect of the city this noon and denounce Rufus for malicious desecration of a temple.”

“On the whole he is not a bad pupil. I wouldn’t want to make him miserable because of a single prank. I know what it means to be a young Roman to be a pupil in the Xanthos School. And I hope you know it too.”

″‘The whole affair is a mystery to me,’ he said. ‘Who would want to steal anything from me?’ ‘Perhaps a thief...?’ ventured Julius.”