My Dear Sir Hamilton, If a feather will show how the wind blows, perhaps my Dedicating to you even as light matter as these Confessions may in some measure prove how grateful I feel for the many kindnesses I have received from you in the course of our intimacy.
"The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer, Complete"
Charles James Lever (1806-1872)
I thought you had the idea of Dedicating it to Somerled, as he'll be taking us through Scotland in his car.
"The Heather-Moon"
C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson
If you remain openly within his sight you will certainly be removed forcibly to the Upper Air, leaving this inoffensive person destitute and abandoned, and if by the exercise of unfailing vigilance you escape both these dangers, you will be reserved to an even worse plight, for Heng-cho in desperation will inevitably carry out the latter part of his threat, Dedicating his spirit to the duty of continually haunting you and frustrating your ambitions here on earth and calling to his assistance myriads of ancestors and relations to torment you in the Upper Air.
"Kai Lung's Golden Hours"
Ernest Bramah Commentator: Hilaire Belloc