Daily quote by James Branch Cabell

• Let us extinguish this candle says Jurgen, "for I have seen so many flames to-day that my eyes are tired."
  So Florimel extinguished the candle, with a good-will that delighted Jurgen. And now they were in utter darkness, and in the dark nobody can see what is happening. But that Florimel now trusted Jurgen and his Noumarian claims was evinced by her very first remark.
  "I was in the beginning suspicious of your majesty," said Florimel, "because I had always heard that every emperor carried a magnificent sceptre, and you then displayed nothing of the sort. But now, somehow, I do not doubt you any longer. And of what is your majesty thinking?"
  "Why, I was reflecting, my dear," says Jurgen, "that my father imagines things very satisfactorily."
  • Ch. 37 : Invention of the Lovely Vampire