“But when they had sat down, Julius was little inclined to divagate into an account of his travels.”

“Well, that seemed to be as good a target to divagate towards as any, so he set off for it.”

“Even bourgeois writers of liberal reputation, from whom an elementary effort of comprehension might be expected, divagate about Africa, lapped in the maximum of apathy consistent with their passion for butterflies and the vague apprehension that colonization is perhaps not the brilliant success that is generally supposed.”