"Inconsecutiveness" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... thoroughly recommendable. It begins with an obviously "felt" and "lived" complaint of the woes which dramatic authors perhaps most of all, but others more or less, experience from that extraordinary inconsecutiveness (to put it mildly) of their acquaintances which makes people—who, to do them justice, would hardly ask for five, ten, or fifty shillings except as a loan, with at least pretence of repayment—demand ...
— A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 - To the Close of the 19th Century • George Saintsbury |
