At this the Wart's eyes grew rounder and rounder, until they were about as big as the owl's who was sitting on his shoulder, and his face got redder and redder, and a breath seemed to gather itself beneath his heart.

It has been my hideous fate to be born with an infinite capacity for love and joy with no hope of using them. Biography
White was born in Bombay British India to English parents Garrick Hanbury White an Indian police superintendent and Constance White. "


Novelist
The novel which White described as "a preface to Malory" was titled The Sword in the Stone.