To underestimate oneself is as much an exaggeration of one's powers than the other.

A client is to me a mere unit, a factor in a problem.

So tomorrow we disappear into the unknown. This account I am transmitting down the river by canoe, and it may be our last word to those who are interested in our fate.

Keep your revolver near you night and day, and never relax your precautions.

A hound it was, an enormous coal-black hound, but not such a hound as mortal eyes have ever seen. Fire burst from its open mouth, its eyes glowed with a smouldering glare, its muzzle and hackles and dewlap were outlined in flickering flame. Never in the delirious dream of a disordered brain could anything more savage, more appalling, more hellish be conceived than that dark form and savage face which broke upon us out of the wall of fog.

My sister and I, you will recollect, were twins, and you know how subtle are the links which bind two souls which are so closely allied.

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.