The setting is a worthy one, if the devil did desire to have a hand in the affairs of men.

If you want to write good copy, you must be where the things are.

They say that genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains," he remarked with a smile. "It's a very bad definition, but it does apply to detective work.

The great bell of Beaulieu was ringing. Far away through the forest might be heard its musical clangor and swell.

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

The approach to the offices of Girdlestone and Co. was not a very dignified one, nor would the uninitiated who traversed it form any conception of the commercial prosperity of the firm in question.

I have seen too much not to know that the impression of a woman may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical reasoner.